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THE CHRISTMAS OR THE SOUVENIR EDITION OF THE BROAD AX WILL APPEAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21; AS USUAL IT WILL REACH THE HIGHEST WATER MARK IN ARTISTIC AFRO-AMERICAN JOURNALISM IN THIS COUNTRY. The BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THE MAY VOL. XXIV CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 14, 1918 No. 13. The Woods Are Still Full of Democratic and Republican Candidates For Mayor of Chicago. It was announced in the columns of this paper two weeks before the daily papers got around to it; that Carter H. Harrison, or "The Man of Destiny" would become a candidate for Chief Executive of this city. THE CHRISTMAS OR THE SOUVENIR EDITION OF "THE BROAD AX"WILL APPEAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21; IT WILL BE PRINTED ON AMERICAN HALFTONE ABERDEEN BOOK PAPER; THE PAPER COSTING 12 CENTS PER POUND, ONE HUNDRED POUNDS TO THE REAM. OVER TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF PAPER WILL BE CONSUMED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION. IT WILL CONTAIN BEAUTIFUL HALFTONE CUTS AND SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS OF CHICAGO. IT WILL ALSO CONTAIN HIGHLY INTERESTINGARTICLES FROM THE PENS OF THREE WELL KNOWN AFRO AMERICAN WOMEN IN THIS CITY ON LIVE SUBJECTS. ALL MATTER INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION IN THAT ISSUE OF THE PAPER, MUST REACH THE EDITOR NO LATER THAN THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. SOCIAL ITEMS PUBLISHED FREE. NOW IS THE TIME TO SECURE WRITE UPS IN IT; TO ADVERTISE IN IT AND TO READ IT. The woods are still mighty full of Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor of Chicago and two three new Richmand's are entering the field every day and it is very hard to tell when the end will come, his head bosses of the managing committee of the Democratic Party of Cook County have been holding secret meetings almost daily in the pursuers of the Sherman House and they have been very much engaged in grinding out candidates for mayor and so far the names of the following candidates have been bought forth to the Light of day out of the hopper or their grinding machine. Hon. Roger C. Sullivan, Fortheenth ward. Hon Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk. This Hon. Alfred Austrian, attorney, Third ward. Hon. James McAndrews, congressman, Sixth district, Thirty-fourth ward. Peter Reinberg, president county board, Twenty-fifth ward. Jacob H. Hopkins, judge Superior court, Twenty-fist ward. Michael L. McKinley, judge Superior court, Twenty-fifth ward. Hon. Clayton F. Smith, city treasurer, Twenty-eighth ward. Frahcis S. Peabody, capitalist, Twenty-first ward. Hon. Thomas J. Webb, business man, Twenty-fifth ward. Hon. Thomas Carey, brickmaker, Third ward. Hon. Edward J. Hughes, recently re-elected to the State Senate from the 21st senatorial District of Illinois, and several others may come forth from the old grinding machine between now and this evening. On the other hand the names of the Hon. Maclay Hoyne, the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, the Hon. William L. O'Connell; the Hon. John E. Treager, and the Hon. Carter H. Harrison "the Man of Destiny; someway or other got caught or clogged in some of the shafts or other workings of the well oiled machine and they failed to come forth from it. Everything seems to indicate that there will be at least ten to twenty Democratic and Republican candidates who will go to the mat at the February primaries in their madned efforts to become mayor of Chicago. Several weeks ago it was stated in these columns that for the seventh time that Carter H. Harrison would attempt to break back into the City Hall," and at that time some of the reporters for the big daily newspapers around the City Hall wanted to know what kind of a pipe we had been hitting and where did we get that stuff or dope. All that we had to say was, in responding to the questions, which had been propounded to us by the smart and wide awake newspapers men, was; "just wait and see that we are telling you the truth and sure enough, the first of this week, the City Hall and other sections of the down town district were flooded with cards, announcing the fact; that Carter H. Harrison, had become a real live candidate for Mayor of Chicago. It seems very hard, for the "Man of Destiny", to realize it; that he is a dead game, fighting political cock in the pit and that he is far beyond resurrection in the political world in Chicago. Mr. H. Ramsey, 351 Garfield ave. in a letter to the editor, inclosing his subscription, $2.00 for one year, States; that The Broad Ax, continues to grow better and better each week and that he could not think of getting along with out it. Mrs. Alice Dunn, who resides with her sister Mrs. Jenkins, in Morgan Park, is better again after undergoing a two weeks spell of sickness. M. Successful business man; extensive real estate owner; who is extremely popular with all classes of his fellow citizens and many Colored men and women in all parts of this city are already marching under his banner for Mayor of Chicago. Hon. Thomas Carey, who seems to be in the lead of all the other democratic candidates for Mayor of Chicago has always been friendly disposed toward worthy and respectable Colored people, foreven unto this day he is not ashamed to let it be known that when he first started out in this life to paddle his own canoe that he found employment at the hands of a Colored man. That he gladly worked and lived at the home of the Colored man for some time and that he was a good boss, and from that time to this Mr. Carey has been absolutely free of race prejudice in relation to the Colored people. And he never feels ashamed to be found in their company or to associate with them in business or political affairs, for Mr. Carey feels deep down in his heart of hearts that HON. THOMAS CAREY less man; extensive real estate owner; all classes of his fellow citizens and man parts of this city are already marchi of Chicago. all men are brothers regardless of their race or nationality. EACH Sunday afternoon at the meeting of the followers of Mr. Carey at his headquarters at the Briggs House and at the Executive meetings of his close and main suporters Mr. Carey is not a bit backward in letting each and everyone know that he wants his Colored friends to be permitted to freely attend all meetings of the various committees to take an active part in their deliberations; that if any of his white friends and supporters cannot stand the presence of decent and respectable appearing Colored men and women at his meetings, that they would favor him by withdrawing from them and Mr. Carey with the greatest pride and delight states that not one of his white friends from the richest to the poorest, from the highest to the low- est has so far raised his voice in protest against his broad views and attitude in that respect. Owing to his liberal minded policy in connection with his manly fight for the nomination and election as Mayor of Chicago, many Colored men attend all af his meetings at the Briggs House, and some of them are members of his Executive Committee. And with much pleasure Mr. Carey states that he has received many letters lately from Colored men and women residing in the various parts of this city who contend that without any money that they will work and vote for him at the February Primaries. Every day Colored men are calling for pledge cards which they are cheerfully signing up for him and so far more than a hundred thousand men Continued on Page Four. ~ PAGETWO ts ERE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 14 ee Se ee eee ere Er ; Seat oi hola | Aperiese Bee =~ TE Ee ate BROAD AX | tor com and deatte trom ty TENG ARINC Ar AT ADEN MEN WI Quinn Chapel forom wit! bold} American Red Cross Presons In this city since July 15th, 1899 without missing one single issue. Re publicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro testans, Single Taxers, Priests, inf. dels or anyone else can have their say as Jong as their language is prop. er and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in ad- vanee. . Ons Keer = eee Six Months cece 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Il. Phone Wentworth 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor ‘ 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 | Vol. XXIV Dec. 14, 1918 No. 13 Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, ‘ML, under Act of March 3, 1879 DANGEROUS DOPES ee ee - dor’t use them. This, warning has a special signi ficance just now when both tHe mor. bidity and the mortality rates of in. fluenza are increasing, when they should be going down. Most cases of influenza and pneu. monia start with What appears to be a severe cold and this is why so many people rush to the nearest drug store ‘for “cough medicine” or “something good for a cold.” Most of the “cough and cold cures” sold in drug stores contain codeine, morphine or opium in some form and may be classed as “doped” cures and are, therefore, dangerous. There is excellent medical autho- rity for asserting that to give these drugs to persons suffering from colds or influenza is to invite an attack of Pneumania. As the Department has repeatedly advised and urged, the right-thing to do in all such cases is to go to bed, or at least stay indoors, call your doctor and follow his advice and treatment. Don’t attempt to Practice medicine yourself; also let the druggist or pharmacist stick to his legitimate business of preparing medicines on prescriptions issued by physicians. It is practically certain that we will have pneumonia and influenza with us the remainder of the winter and also during the early spring months. There will also be-occasional flare ups; but it is not believed that either of the diseases named will assume epi- demic form. The Commissioner of Health believes that the situation is under control and can be’ so kept, provided only the people of Chicago will continue to give the same intel- ligent aid and co-operation that they did during September and October when the outbreak was in its most dangerous stages. In this connection is called to the necessity and importance of a strict observance of the rules and regula- tions governing the prompt reporting; isolation and cure of influenza and pneumonia cases. There has been no changes made as to the rule requir- ing that influenza patients must be kept isolated during their sickness] and for a period of not less than five | days after return of normal tempe-| rature. ' As is well known, pneumonia is} most prevalent in Chicago from De- cember to April. This means that |; even though we have no serious re-|{ currence of influenza, it is going to]: require united effort if the death rate| from pneumonia is to be kept from | mourning. much higher that it has in| lormer years. 1 - And remember: * % Pneumonia is highly contagious. | It killed over 5,000 people in Chi-| « ago last year. ; de It is a dirty air disease, as eviden- |b ed by the fact that Chicago has'very | r few cases and deaths from May to Ogtober; and that these both show ® steady increase from November until the open air season comen again. k Plenty of fresh air and sunshine together with sane, temperate habits as to eating, drinking and sleeping will greatly lessen your chances of having this disease. DOPE IS DANGEROUS. DON’T USE IT. Have you forgotten the oft repeated admonition that the biggest bed- room in your home is not large enough for even one person to sleep in with the windows all closed. It is much safer to ventilate than it is to hibernate. AMERICAN GIRLS NOW PED- DLERS IN FRANCE « With Well-Stocked Little Motor Tru- cks They Make the Rounds of Rui- ned Villages. men have proved that they could ex press their sympathy and identity of interest with the Allies in deeds better than in words. Their lates achievement in France is the revival of the ancient industry of peddling, according to a report sent to the De partment of Labor. Instead of a two- wheeled cart, a Ford car makes the rounds and girls have superseded the men who long ago haggled over a sou. When all the railroad tracks were wrecked and the road were impas- sable for ordinary trucks, the women of the American Committee for De- vastated France thought of thy old- fashioned method of carrying sup- plies about the country. So they devised the modernized peddling sys- tem. Wherever the highways or country- side admits of the passage of a vehi- cle, there the little traveling shops may be seen making regular trips to the almost inaccessible habitations. The cars are driven by volunteer American chauffeuses and the sup- plies are disposed of by volunteer American saleswomen. From dawn to long after dark each saleswoman is kept busy with her scales for weigh- ing flour, her cash-box and her price- list. Fifty villages a week are cove- red by these traveling shops. * In the ruins of what were once houses and now are only cellars the people of northern France, who have a little money to spend for the ne- cessaries of life, are no better off than the very poorest inhabitants, for there is nothing to buy. The traveling shops gradually lear- ned exactly what sort of stocks to provide. Beginning with an assort- ment of groceries, other things were added, so that now, in addition to rice, coffee, lard, cocoa, canned milk and other edibles, blankets, sheets, “pots and tin plates, knives, amps and brooms are carried. Inas- much as in certain sections there is 1ot a store for miles around, a paper | of pins and a cake of soap are lux-|) ries as well as necessaries. . Entering a ruined town the chauf- | euse blows three blasts on her whist- | e. The saleswoman gets her goods |! ut for display, and then from shell | oles, from behind broken walls and |’ rom beneath improvised shelters per- | ong.of all ages hurry forth to get | vhat they can. 1 Those who can pay are asked one-|! hird of the original cost of each ar- ile. Those who cannot pay are iven what they need. Many take heir supplies and pay a little ata ime. They prefer to be, as far as ossible, self-sustaining, and the ommittee encourages this attitude n order to sustain self-respect and | s > avoid making paupers of the un-| | ortunate victims of the war. t Regardless of what the weather lay be, the peddlers start out on ueir rounds. Often heavy roads or| V ecidents detain them, and it is late | j hen they finally return to their star- | V ng point, the base of supplies. | m fhen darkness settles down on ajn inter’s afternoon the chauffeuse has difficult task to drive over the un- tain roads. The one light inside | P ch little traveling truck is a beacon | ‘hope to hundreds. No matter what | < ppens, the;American peddlers must | 4: > dee ae “aaah te ‘THOUSANDS OF COLORED MEN WILL RETURN TO FRANCE, AS THEY FIND IT A HAVEN FOR THE OPPRESSED Written ‘at for —— a = : a Andersor Imagine arriving in one of thé largest cities of the world, an utter stranger, with only a. slight know ledge of the language sponken by it: inhabitants, and as if this were no! the only handicap enough, to be further burdened with all of the ma- tural timidity of a race that has al- ways been restrained at home from the enjoyment of those liberties and privileges vouchsafe people of all other races. This was may exact situation upon my arrival for the first time in Paris. Not the Paris of gloom and mourn- ing that we know today, but the gay Paree’ of other days whose pleasure- loving pleasure-seeking reputation penetrated to the uttermost parts of the world. Everything seemed so dif- ferent, so new, so wonderful. Ma- gnificent buildings, great boulevards in the very heart of the city, lined with beautiful trees; brilliant cafes and restaurants filled with laughing crowds within and without, where tables were arranged under an awn- ing, directly on the sidewalk, sepa- rated from passers by only by rows of large plants set in large wooden or metal receptacles or by a lattice work of growing vines. The merry. throngs that sat and sipped wine, ab- sinthe or cafe noir, as if there never was such a thing as work or care. Then those queer little kiosks where you could buy the most beautiful flowers as well as the latest news- paper from all parts of the world. It) is impossible to describe the impres- | sions and sensations that seize upon | one in the face of this wonderful new | world when he views it for the first | ‘ime. i I had always heard that in Paris such a thing as race deserimination was unknown, but one can hear a nuch; it was therefore with some | \esitation and not a little invard | repidation that I chose a seat at one | f the tables outside of what I = earned was'one of the most fashiona- | le cafes in the city, and deep down nmy heart lay that gnawing, linger- ng doubt about being served. | Wonder upon wonders! I was ap- roached us though I were an Indian | abob. My order taken and executed ‘ith such a display of politeness both | f speech and gestures as I had |; reamed existed only in fiction and | airy tales. The speech of course To fail to bring rice or condensed milk might mean the loss of a child’s life, for all depend on the meager amounts distributed by the American Committee. 2 With all the occupied territory eva- cuated there must be moré workers, more trucks and more food. House- hold articles and clothing will be needed. Until Germany pays indem- nity these people returning to their home sites must be helped. They must be fed and given employment. This is the work that has been going on since May, 1917, and it will con- tinue until the French Government announces that no more help is needed. + i CITY NEWS. Reported by Lawyer S. C. Z. Westerfield The Phalanx Club gave a dance and a.receiption -at National Hall last week preliminary to Xmas fes- tivities. Lloyd Stone, Secretary of the boys’ work at the Wabash Y. M. C. A. has just returned from a flying trip to Washington, D.C. He cbuld not re- main long as matters of an urgent nature required his attention here. A. L. Weaver of 4234 Evans Ave., Postal Employ, was suddenly strieken with an attack ef Influenza several days ago. At last reports he was eine sists noo Np bashes Be post of duty within the coming week. was lost upon me; but the gestures were eloquent enough. The success of this first venture inspired me with new-born courage and I had lost much of my timidity when I sought to secure hotel accomo- dation. The only question asked me was what price room I desided. I chose a moderate priced room and was shown up to it with the same dis- play of courtesy and politeness that had characterized my treatment at the cafe. “Truly” I thought, “this is a wonderful place.” Z I was fortunate enough to arrived in the city while the opera season was ‘on, and strolled up the Avenue de’ L’Opera to the famous Opera House concerning which I had read and heard so much. These also the only inquiry was, what price seat I desired and how many or whether perhaps ‘monsieur desired a box! 1 nearly fainted. After witnessing a splendid operatic performance, followed by the famous Parisian ballet, I hailed a taxi and was driven to the Mont Marte! The whole world goes to the Mont Marte. By this time I felt as if Paris was mine. Everywhere I went the doors opened wide in vel- come. For the first time in my life I knew-what the feeling is to be able to go anywhere and do anything you wish and can afford. The crucial test of my courage came however, when I suddenly real? ized that I was sadly in need of a barber. -I put on a bold face, how- ever, and entered a neat appearing shop, I was immediately waited upon and as I settled down in the chair I said to myself. “If the boys at home could only see me now.” I know that is what the boys over there at the present time are say- ing daily to themselves when they are enjoying privileges that prejudice would forbid them enjoying at home; and many of them are going to return jo France if they are mustered out ere or if mustered out in France, are coing to remain. Just think of it! To go anywhere jou have the means to take you, to jo anything any @her race can do,|_ 0 feel yourself a real man, the only | ecommendation being of neat ap-|' earance and gentlemanly deport-| nent! Well you must experience it o know the feeling. All the churches, and __ public assemblies are under the ban in Evan- ston, duesto another epidemic of in- fiuenza. An vunce of prevention is worth a pound of cure Therefore, be cautious about whom you come in concact with expecially if they hap- pen to be a flagrant cougher or sneezer. Let us stamp out this insi- dious epidemic if possible. Miss Pauline James Lev, well known in musical circles is ab!2 to be out again after a slight attack of influen- za. The Broad Ax wishes for her a ‘complete recovery. A number of soldier boys were present in Quinn Chapel Sunday School of the last session and were given special prominence. Each one being called ov fur 2 talk. Their talk was all instructive as well as interes:- ing. Among those present were priv- ate Charles Ford, Charles Thomas, William Williams, and Sergt. Fred Butger. | Miss M. Fisher has a paper on the “History and Origin of the Negro.’ And Richard G. Parker will delive an ovation. The musical number are good, scarcely anyone being more exceptional then the other. A table- aux will be furnished by nice girls from Wendell Phillips High School. Miss Mabel Fowler is Chairman of the program. Hon. Patrick H. O’Donnell will address the forum Sunday, January fifth, 1919. Also, Prof. James Mundy’s chorus will be pres- ent. Don’t miss that big meeting. | Quinn Chapel forum will hold the last meeting of the year next Sunday afternoon at 3.30. A prc gxam containing cheifly local tale: will be rendered at that hour. geen: SPECIAL NOTICE. ~ From on and after this date; a matter intended for publication in th current issue of this paper, mus reach the editor, not later tha Thursday morning. Personal or so cial items published free. Writ plainly and briefly on one side of the paper only. — eg Help and Hope. | Enlarge your vision and grasp o worldly uffairs by silent communiot with the immensity of the star-strewr universe—you will find the heartach of life's disappointments, the epheme ral glitter and tinsel that seem so es sential to your happiness, are but passing phases of an existence to be dealt with serenely and intelligently. and that cannot be done wisely and well If one eternally grovels in the clay of earth without moments of sf lent withdrawal to the starry solitudes of thought. Richest Pearl Fisheries. Although most of the bays and in- lets of the remote island groups of the South Seas have been stripped of thelr pearl-bearing bivalve mollusks by venturesome world-wayfarers, there continues to be found occasionally xmall areas of these waters that have been untouched by pearl divers and which often yield wealth to the ex- plorers. The richest pearl; waters in the world are these adjacent to the Picturesque beach town of Broome. ‘iii Mia ici i cat aa The almost universal habit of turn- ing aside the hend 2nd suppressing the sneeze oF congh has an interesting origin. It is derived from human ex- perience. In the middle ages (and probably much earlier), when frequent Plngues of various diseases swept away whole populations in Europe, it WAS suspected and even believed that Infection was conveyed by coughing and sneezing. Hence the adoption of tht: precaution. i aanaeE. | Keep Troubles to Yourself. Life for the vast majority of us ts Rone too carefree. ‘This trouble, or that disappointment, makes our world very cheerless at titres; but dwelling Upon our problems, elaborating upon our difficulties, or longing to share those unpleasant realities with others, will not aid ux one iota. We, each, in- dividually, must stand our own ground, and, if we are wise, refuse to be influ- enced by any ‘unproductive moods, , ap iii testi Widews in the Hawaiian fslands, up to very recent years, had the names of their dead husbands tattooed on their tongues. Exyptian women today have their lips pricked blue for becom- ingness. And in Yezo, the northern- most island of the Japanese archipela- go, the fashion demands that girls shall greatly enlarge the apparent size of their mouths by a tattooing in red about the lips. Matters Not to Be Discussed. Of this fact we may all rest as- sured: The quieter we keep about ourselves, our affairs, pleusant or oth- erwise, the better it will be for us. Time is at a premiuu these days, and If we hope to surmount our difficulties, ho thatter how tzying they may be, we must wisely learn to keep each and every one of those problems in the background. Fruit That Produces Oil, “A fruit containing a larze percent- age of oll hax heen discovered in the region of Torreon, Mex., and is known by the name of chichopoxtle. Experi- ments show tht 25 per cent of its con- tents consists of oi! of great value in industrial pursuits ‘requiring a labri- cant of high quality. It is proposed to introduce the cultivation of this fruit upon a larze scale. Rests With Man to Accomplish. The door of opportunity is never closed to, the man who has the desire to realize bix ambitions @id the will to do's, And to the one who believes that the world ix a fair field, there 4s no closed door. It but awaits the man who will lift the lateh and walk through without questfoning what awaits him. Miniature Railroad. The smallest _ passenger-tarrying railway in Engiand.is to be found on the estate of S. P. Derbyshire, at Ike ston. The gauge of the roadbed is ‘only seven inches. The engine, a per fect model of the Midland railway 1,000 ‘class, is three-quurter-horse pow- er and will haul four adult passengers of the miniature truck. , Substitute for Platinum. Palladium furnishes a substitute for platinum in the dental industry, there- by releasing from use the latter metal. It is nearly as hard as steel, and bas the curious property of swallowing hydrogen. i in ne absorb 650 times its own of hy drogen. American Red Cross Presa to Colored Minister } 3 it) ; | | = =_—- | | os) | = th He 7 7 | I ety ne ee nea tert eet, La, and the Twelve-Star Servic: > Presented to Him by the Amercx Red Cross. Having the right to and r+ 1 twelve-star service pin, the I: t Windsor of Rayville, La. a seins Red Cross worker), bias won pos with a unique decoration bye Aes ean Red Cross. The fiyther nina. teen sons, twelve of when: the colors, this genial colors! » ° of the Baptist chureh prot, wile the record for sons in tw service of the United States. f te are any others ‘with similir or tert status, they are yet to be hewn! frm In the accompanying iltusire on of the twelvestar pin, topper + Red Cross insignia. it wil that the first bar bears fee vos ‘These represent five indivi: . Bennie, Robbin, Jeff 2. hove Areble. The next bar bears sy 6 sos representing twins, Georze 5» yette; the mext bar is < i" decorated, representing Witliun = James, also twins; and the bone bar, with its three stars, mprwn the triplets, Matthew Mark oui ! Eisht of the boys are volnnter a the other four were called in ae hearing of the remaris!#| rd of the Windsor family. Py dent Wilson, who is also present of the American Red Cross, wroie | Rev. Mr. Windsor as follows “I am writing to say with wher it} terest and admiration I have eared of the fact that twelve of your ss are in the service of our country. 24] the thirteenth impatiently. wait's: »| follow them in. This is » <pienta] record, and I congratulate you fr the bottom of my heart. The evlvnd troops have proved themselves fs soldiers.” Why Busy People Have Leisure, ‘They say that the busiest peor! have the most’time to give in servie to others, can turn clear attention ‘© new subject at an instant’s notice This ts simple because the busie# people, the ones who are accomplist ing the most, have learned the art « Prompt action, of quick dismissal #! what has to be done. They can 2i* You at any moment undivided attes tion because their minds are clear as# ready. Familiarity Bad Form. In offices and shops where men #04 women work together, it is thu! for for workers to uddress eacl other 5 their first names. Men should be ¢° ful to address woman workers =~ Mis —. Women should not fal! into bad habit of calling men by their las names, as Brown, or Jones, withewt prefixing Mr. It is possible—and wi —to be friendly without being fauill or undignified —Biddy Bye. Teachina Patrictic Sentiment. Nancy had seen sent to put Be" Retty to sleep. She rolled the carris# into the front room and put Star-Spangled Banner” on the ph” graph. As the record began. > mother looked in to see Naney lift Betty to a sitting position. “No Betty," she admonished, “I kx you're too small to stand up when play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner, at Peast you can sit up very straight Little John’s Wish. ‘John’s mother objects to quarrel! and fighting among her children. day some one described a friend! house as having such heavy parti walls that noise in one room could be heard in an adjoining .rvow. J said, “I wish our house was like thst then when mamma is in the sittl room ené us kids in the dining get a scrap started, we could fight peace.” Marvelous Beauty of Blue Grotto Elicits Admiration From All Priv- leged to Visit It The Blue Grotto is one of a number in the high cliffs on the isle of Capri. Italy. There are several of these grottoes. There is the Red Grotto with rosy lights and gayly-tinted waters, and the Green Grotto with moss agate-colored walls and lacy draperies of green fern, but the Blue Grotto with its silvery sands and waters and the wonderful blue dome, and blue vapor seen to envelop everything, is conceded by most visitors to be the most beautiful of all. The single opening of the Blue Grotto is a low arch, hardly three feet in height. The passenger lies flat in the bottom of the boat and, his guide stoops low. Thus they wait until a generous wave happens along and sends the boat shooting through the opening. Once into the cave, the visitor is allowed to raise his head. The boat he rides in seems silvered and the sands and waves beneath his boat are like mercury. If the traveler dips his hand over the edge of the boat into the water it likewise turns to silver. The guide, as well as the lights and domes of the cave, assume cerulean tints and the visitor wonders if he has become permanently dived with the color of this subterranean sky. The rocky walls at the side are black and it is hard to realize that this wonderful "La Grotto Azzurra" of the Itallians is only a trick of the gay southern sunshine. In the days of ancient Rome there were secret passages to the Blue Grotto from the villas on the cliffs, but since those days either the sea has risen or the island has sunk so that for a long period the Blue Grotto was lost to the ken of man. In 1826, it has been said, a German poet named August Kopisch dived through the present tiny opening and became the first of modern men to find himself in the azure and silver enchantment of the Blue Grotto. PROOF THAT BEETLES REASON Experiment Made by Scientist Shows Insects Have More Than Small Amount of Intelligence. the psychological value of M. Fabre's work and testimony is great, quite apart from its passing interest for him who runs as he reads. Once for all he must surely have exploded the myth that instinct is reason in little, or that reason grows out of instinct. Quite obviously they are plants of a different species. He quotes Lacordaire, in his "Introduction to Entomology," referring to the burying beetles, as a glaring instance of an advocate of the reason-ex-instinct myth: "The following case," he (that is, Lacordaire) continues, "recorded by Gledditsch, has every indication of the intervention of reason. One of his friends, wishing to desiccate a frog, placed it on the top of a stick thrust into the ground, in order to make sure that the Necrophori (burying beetles) should not come and carry it off. But this preemption was of no effect; the insects, being unable to reach the frog, dig under the stick, and, having caused it to fall, buried it as well as the body."—Westminster Gazette. A Woman's Beauty There was once a movie queen who had ears that stuck out like doorknobs. Likewise in a moment of anger a jealous husband bit a piece out of one of them. Did it leave her a broken-hearted wreck on the shoals of beauty? It did not. She forthwith did her hair up in a cute way that covered her ears completely from the critical gaze of the public. Now every woman in the world is wearing her hair the same way. The bovines and the hatchet faces are all in the same class. The girl whose greatest physical charm was her little, pink, shell-like ears now has them buried 'neath a whirligig of hair. The fashion makes most women ugly, but they are still in fashion. Women are said to be quite clever, but a lot of them never learn how to do up their own hair to advantage.-Los Angeles Times. How Banana Grows What most people regard as the top of a bunch of bananas is the bottom. In the stores the bananas hang bottom side up, the way they grow. The bunches on each stalk are called hands, the hands grow alternately on the stalk, the hands that number odd numbers are on one side of the stalk and those that number even numbers or the opposite side, and on a full stalk the number of bananas to a hand can be definitely computed, as the number of bananas in a hand contains one less than the previous hand, this being invariably true. A section of a banana divides naturally into three pieces shaped like a piece of pie. Natives of banana-growing countries always scrape the mealy conting off the banana before eating it. Neutrality That Counts Companionship, business co-operation and home discipline and happiness depend upon neutrality that knows when to refrain, withhold, submit and even to submerge one's ideas and personality for the sake of letting otherwise drab, uninteresting people or subjects come out in the clear light. But let us not permit our neutrality to make us so indifferent and inattentive to faults or errors of indiscretion that we cannot voice some protest helpful to delinquent warring factions, whether it be in the home or in the larger workaday world. CROSSED BREEDS OF DUCKS "Burbanked" Type, In Louisiana, Will Not Migrate, as Is Customary With the Species. Stanley Chisby Arthur, ornithologist of the conservation commission of Louisiana, is authority for the statement that the state "Burbanked" the wild duck, the cross of which "set," and they produced a duck that will remain in the state the year round. Louisiana is visited by the greenhead mallard, which leaves in the spring for the North. Also by another species known as the summer mallard, or Florida duck, which spends its summer in Louisiana and winters in Mexico and Central America. It leaves Louisiana on the approach of cold weather. The experiment of crossing the greenhead mallard, the winter visitor, with the summer mallard, or Florida duck, the summerm visitor, was conducted by M. L. Alexander, conservation commissioner, and Edward A. McHenny at Avery island, a state preserve. Species of the two ducks were trapped, mated and the eggs proved fertile. The experiment proved a success. The "Burbanked" ducks have been termed the "Louisiana mallard." The "Louisiana mallard" has produced its own young, and Mr. Arthur says the cross has "set." Hundreds of these "Louisiana mallards" were released on Marsh island, a wild life sanctuary, so that they might perpetuate themselves. OLDEST OF EARTH'S CITIES Damascus Has Seen the Rise and Fall of Races Which Are Mere Shadows in History. What times and changes such a place as Damascus has seen, what waves of peoples, what rise and fall of kings, what increase and collapse of greatness, what kaleidoscopic history! What the autochthonous population of the place was is a point probably past historic decision. The earliest records find in control a race indefinitely related to the Mesopotamians. Then the march of races and peoples begins, and the rise and fall of conquerors. Hittites, Amorites, Suti, Khabiri, Jews, Assyrians, Cimmerians, Egyptians, Armenians, Arabs, Persians, Macedonians, Parthians, Romans, Seleucids, the Omayyads, the Abbassidians, Mongols, Tartars, modern Egyptians, Ottomans, and the English, have swept through this oldest dwelling place of gregarious humanity, and fill it flourishes, to this day as populous as such places as Kansas City or Denver or Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Paul, or Rochester, and relatively far more important. Merits of October Ale. Not the fluid of that name, but the elixir that is in this golden October sunshine. Influenza germs are deadly afraid of clear, cool, snappy sunshine. The whole outdoors is full of it, and the invitation to enjoy it is so urgent and cordial that the man or woman who refuses to accept it is only adding to the risk that the doctors declare everybody is assuming these epidemic days. Nature is trying to add compensation for the anxieties attendant upon contagious disease. In her cornucopia she has stored remedies that are not only effective but pleasant to take. Get out of doors into the October sunshine that has been and will be pouring its curative and stimulating forces over the country. The walking is fine and the landscape never more varied and beautiful. The forests are garbed in brown, purple and gold. The silences are eloquent with the slumber song of nature. The air is a tonic for tired, taut nerves and bodies. Get out of doors and shake off the fears as well as the germs of influenza.-Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Old Valenciennes. "The town of lace," wrote William of Orange to the Estates on the 13th of April, 1677, "is lost to us. We are very sorry to be obliged to tell your high mightinesses that it has not pleased God to bless on this occasion the arms of the state under our guidance." But lace is no longer made in Valenciennes, the capital of an arrondissement in the department of the Nord, and a fortress of the second class. But it is nevertheless a quaint town, with sufficient seventeenth century houses to give it a medieval appearance. The handsome Hotel de Ville is also largely seventeenth century work, and before the war contained a large collection of tapestries and of paintings, especially of the Flemish school. The city also possessed an academy of sculpture and painting, a museum of natural history, a lycee and an arsenal. Gigantic Punch Bowl. The largest punch bowl ever used was at a party given at Allcant by Admiral Edward Russell in 1694, when a marble fountain was converted for the occasion into a punch bowl. The ingredients used in brewing the punch included four hogsheads of brandy, one "pipe" of Malaga wine, 20 gallons of lime juice, 2,500 lemons, 1,300 pounds of white sugar, five pounds of grated nutmeg, 300 toasted biscuits and eight hogsheads of water. A boy in a boat filled the cups of the 6,000 persons who partook of the contents of the mighty punch bowl. Banter. He—I wish I had married a girl who could save money. She—I wish I had married a man who could make it. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 14, 1918 SMALL SUMS WORTH SAVING SEEMS TO DEMAND SOLUTI How Amounts That Seem Insignificant Pile Up Into Figures That Are Impressive. A great French banker was once asked the secret of French thrift, and he replied, "Compound interest." Just as constant waste, even in little things, may change one's life from success to failure, so the steady saving of money will eventually bring independence, if not actual wealth. Let us analyze the statements made by the Frenchman. There are very few people who cannot, without any inconvenience whatever, lay aside 10 cents a day. Within ten years one's daily savings of this insignificant amount will amount to $365, in addition to $80.36 compound interest, making a total of $445.36 to show for one's saving just 10 cents a day for ten years. By saving 15 cents a day for ten years, with interest compounded at 4 per cent, one will have the comfortable sum of $668.18; 20 cents a day will net $900.99. Save 50 cents a day for ten years and you will have $2.227.73. A dollar a day will give you a total of $4,455.74 for the ten-year period. All these figures are based on the savings being put out at 4 per cent compound interest. Look back over the last ten years of your life today. Be honest with yourself! Look facts squarely in the face! Could you not have saved 50 cents a day, or a quarter a day, or possibly a dollar a day? It might have pinched you, now and then, to do so; it might have meant the surrender of a few good times, a few luxuries or extravagances. But it would have meant a substantial sum for you—something that would add immeasurably to your poise, peace of mind and self-confidence.—S. W. Straus in Thrift Magazine. UNIQUE IN DECORATIVE IDEAS Praise Must Be Awarded Individuals Who Have "Sprung" Something New on Old World. A famous prima donna had two rooms of her town house decorated with what she called, "The records of dln and dinner." To be translated, this meant that her bedroom was papered with leaves of music from the operas in which she had won fame and fortune, and that her dining room was similarly decorated with the hotel bills she had collected—and paid—in every country and continent. A wealthy young woman had many admirers, either for herself or her possessions, and received piles of love letters. She decided to make a dado of them in her special sanctum. For months it became quite a society function to sit on the floor and read this lady's dado aloud. The Tenderloin club at London possesses two wonderfully decorated rooms. The card room is decorated with 6,000 playing cards arranged in every conceivable order; and very well they look. Another room in the club is papered with theater tickets, completed with a cornice of champagne corks all round the room. What a lot of "Won't-go-home-till-mornings" those silent corks could repeat had each a tongue! Learning to Drum. How Haydn learned to bent a drum and the preservation of the first one he played make an amusing story. There was to be a great church festival, including a procession through the streets in which the choristers were as a matter of course to take part, but the drummer falling ill, no one could be found to take his place until the director called for Joseph Haydn, showed him how to make the stroke and left him alone. Joseph found a meal tub, stretched a cloth over the top, set it on a stool and began to drum away with such vigor that the stool was soon overturned and himself covered with meal. But the stroke was learned and the spectators of the procession found their gravity unduly taxed by the sight of a little fellow of six years beating a big drum carried before him by a hunch-back, since a hearer of ordinary stature would have raised the instrument far out of the drummer's reach. The drum used on that occasion by Haydn is still preserved in the choir of the church at Hamburg. "Oh, Hannah!" One of our "Indian" names loses some of its flavor of romance under the investigation of Will G. Steel, gazetteer, in Steel Points. He says that the musical name of Ne-wan-nah, in Clatsop county, Oregon, was derived from the circumstances that a pioneer of the place who employed several men also had a daughter named Hannah. One of the men presented her with a hat, which she did not appreciate, and his fellow workers made sport of him by calling to one another in his presence, "Oh, Hannah." The term, Mr. Steel finds, finally became attached to the stream as O'Hannah, subsequently becoming Newannah. The word is also said to be Indian for "waterfall," but probably this is only a coincidence, for Mr. Steel gives full credence to the "Oh, Hannah" version. At Last The nice young man, opening up a conversation with the lady of his affections: "I made a perfect fool of myself today!" "There, I knew you would make something of yourself if you only tried long enough!" was the startling response. SEEMS TO DEMAND SOLUTION Mystery Surrounding Green Bottle Found In Cornerstone of Building Puzzles Antiquarians. Springfield antiquarians are as interested as the weather will permit over the discovery in the cornerstone of one of the armory buildings of "an ancient green bottle," to quote from the printed description of the find. It is said that it closely resembles an oldtime rum bottle, except that its surface is covered with what are alleged to be Masonic characters, says the Hartford Courant. Fragments of a cork were found, but the bottle contained no fluid, not even an odor. That the bottle was empty when found affords no ground for surprise, but that its surface is completely covered by Masonic characters may give rise to much speculation. Had it been covered or partially covered with characters which indicated that it once contained distilled liquor from the West Indies there would have been little cause for speculation, inasmuch as such bottles and such spirits were common a hundred years ago when the cornerstone was supposed to have been put in place. That the bottle was put in place while empty suggests a thrifty disposition on the part of the builders. APES SUFFER IN CAPTIVITY Gorillas, Taken From Their Native Haunts, Speedily Die From Pure Lack of Companionship. "Any sympathy that a soft-hearted person has for captive gorillas is not misplaced," says Miss Ellen Velvin in "From Jungle to Zoo." "Many gorillas have been captives, but in spite of the greatest cire few have lived more than a comparatively short time. There seems to be no particular alliment from which they suffer—nothing except intense home or heart sickness. They grieve themselves to death. "All the anthropoid or manlike apes, such as gorillas, orang-outlands and chimpanzees, are extremely sensitive to surroundings and environments. In order to keep these big apes in good health it is absolutely necessary to give them plenty of company, either of their own kind or of men—anything, in fact, to relieve the tedium of captivity, which they undoubtedly feel. When a chimpanzee gets a new companion he goes into the wildest state of excitement; he thumps the floor and walls, scamper round his cage, and screams with delight." The Indians' Calendar The following account of how the Indians used to keep track of the seasons is told by a veteran chief in Canada. The names corresponding with the names of the months were: April—Frog moon. May—Sprouting of green leaves and grass. June—Egg (duck) moon. July—Moulting (duck's) moon. August—Flying (duck's) moon. September—Running of the deer. October—Fall moon. November—Misty moon. December—Clear, frosty moon. January—Wolf moon. February—Eagle moon. March—Goose moon. Upon being asked how they kept record of the days in each month, the chief replied that they always counted 30 to each month, and that it was an Indian's duty to keep record of them by each morning taking a stick from the days-to-come bundle and adding-it to the days-past bundle. Those sticks were carefully scraped twigs of the "pussy" willows, which by their silvery catkins show the first sign of the spring season. One of the Original Jokes. A writer telling about the outing of the Authors' guild at Florida, Mo., Mark Twain's birthplace, says that the "jumping frog" story was a favorite anecdote among the stories told by Twain's humorous uncle, John A. Quarles, and that Quarles brought it along with him from the backwoods of Tennessee. Some pundit dug the same tale out of ancient Greek literature not many years ago. It is no doubt impossible, but it would be highly interesting to trace the lip-to-lip journey of the story back through the colonies and across the sea to the learned clerk in Oxford or Cambridge who first translated it from classic Greek to homely English and told it over his cake and ale. Maybe it was Ben Jonson and maybe Shakespeare passed it on. Friendship. There must be in friendship something to distinguish it from a companion and a countryman, from a school fellow or a gossip, from a sweetheart or a fellow traveler. Friendship may look in at any one of these doors, but it stays not anywhere till it comes to be the best thing in the world; and when we consider that one man is not better than another, neither toward God nor toward man, but by doing better and braver things we shall also see that which is most beneficent is also most excellent; and therefore those friendships must needs be most perfect where the friends can be most useful.-Jeremy Taylor. Two Sizea Too Large Dix-That accounts for it. This head I've got on this morning doesn't seem to be mine, certainly.-Boston Transcript. IMPROVING ON OLD MOTIONS One's Accustomed Ways of Doing Things Need Not Be Accepted as Necessarily the Best. The idea that a wooden leg or a false hand can be clapped onto a wounded man and the case dismissed with a blessing is a thing of the distant past. A wooden hand is good for very little except to look respectable in the street. The thing for which the doctors are striving is to give back to the injured man not a hand but the work of a hand. And this opens possibilities. The work of a hand may be done in an extraordinary number of ways. Sometimes it is managed by a steel rod with tools clamped to it; sometimes by a strong iron claw. Some of the most eager thinkers are asking: "If we are to differ from Nature at all why not differ altogether? Why not replace one arm by two steel rods, or even three, so long as they can be useful?" Men learn that the old motions by which they have been accustomed to get things done are not necessarily the only ones. A farmer with one arm can use a shovel; he simply has an implement with a longer handle, which goes through a strap at his waist. Then the one arm does nothing but press down on the handle and the shovelful of earth is lifted just as well as by the old method. If the man wants more power he can use his knee. Large objects can be moved by one arm and the hip. A necktie can be tied by one hand and the chin. The hand can be washed by the foot. SOCIETY HAD HIGH IDEALS Order of Fools, Founded in 1381, Was Not by Any Means What its Name Would Indicate. On November 12, 1381, the association known as The Order of Fools was said to have been founded by Adolphus, count of Cleves, under the title, "D'Order Van't Geeken Geselischap." Though bearing a designation savoring too strongly of contempt, the members of this order were composed of noblemen and gentlemen of the highest rank and renown, who in this way formed themselves into a body for humane and charitable purposes. They were in no way connected with the Feast of Fools and similar absurdities of medieval times. They were not dissimilar to the Odd Fellows, Foresters and other similar organizations of the present day, which include within their sphere of operations, benevolent and useful as well as convivial and social objects. The insignia borne by the knights of this order consisted of a jester or a fool, embroidered on the left side of their mantles and depicted dressed in red and silver vest, with a cap and bells on his head, yellow stockings, a cup filled with fruits in his right hand, and in his left, a gold key, as a symbol of the affection which ought to exist among the members of the society. They met once a year at Cleves on the first Sunday after Michaelmas day (St. Martin's day), when a grand court was held extending over seven days, and all matters relating to the welfare and conduct of the order were discussed. Blackbirds Valuable. One spring while plowing for potatoes I was followed around the lot by a flock of blackbirds, and out of curiosity I watched them to see what they were after and found that they were gathering up every grub in sight, and there were lots of them, writes a correspondent of the Rural New Yorker. A neighbor's boy came over where I was at work, and on seeing the birds started to drive them off. I stopped him and showed him what they were doing. He thought that it would pay me to feed the birds so as to keep them on the job. There were enough grubs in sight to have spoiled a good lot of potatoes. Yesterday (August 29) I pulled up a hill and found a grub and where he had eaten out one-quarter of the inside of a potato. Windsor Castle Windsor castle is near the town of Windsor, in Berkshire, England, 23 miles from London. Windsor is one of the most ancient towns in England, dating from the early middle ages. The castle was erected by William the Conqueror. It was originally the site of a Roman settlement and has figured in English history in many picturesque and tragic ways. Many of the kings of England are buried beneath the royal chapel at Windsor, including King Edward VII, who was buried there in May, 1910. The castle, surrounded by spacious and magnificent grounds, has been the chief residence of English sovereigns for many centuries. The "Wind-Month." November was styled by the ancient Saxons as wind-month, from the gales which are so prevalent at this season of the year, and which made them beach their boats and cease almost entirely from maritime operations. It bore also the name of the bloody month, from the circumstance of its being customary to slaughter great numbers of cattle, to be salted for the winter. November is the eleventh month of the year, although its name would indicate that it was the ninth month. This is accounted for by the change from the old calendar, which began in March and not in January, as our present calendar does. PAGE THREE Most Beautiful Masterpieces Are Crumbling Because Constructed of Perishable Material. The two capital cities of central Asia have left mosques and tombs which for their grace, decorations and grandeur, are precious documents of the culture of a splendid epoch, Asia Magazine states. The intricate carving of the gates and the enameed tiles, azure, purple and saffron, heap up a prodigality of design, all the more remarkable bequease, according to the Islam law, the representation of living nature in any form is forbidden. This restriction developed a prehath of extremely beautiful geometrical and conventional patterns, and to the use of texts of the koran in the highly decorative Arabic characters. Unfortunately, the Moslems did not construct for permanency, in marble, like the Greeks. The enamel tiles of the facades are rapidly falling away, the walls of clay are disintegrating and the broken roofs furnish asylums for birds. The natives, indolent and fatalist, shrug their shoulders and consider it a part of the natural order of things for monuments to crumble and pass away. Soon the jade and turquoise pages in the history of central Asia will be obliterated more completely than the records of Babylon and Pompeii. TRUTH ABOVE ALL THINGS Incomparably the Best Business Asset That a Man or Firm Can Possess. A successful merchant, when asked the question, "What is the best asset of a business house?" said: "The best asset a business house can possess is a reputation for absolute truth." Such was the exhortation lately given to a young man who has yet to arrive, by a veteran who, in well-earned retirement, can comfort himself with the reflection that he has been one of the most successful business men of the age. To the cynic advice of this quality may seem, perhaps, to call up shades of George Washington at the period when "he couldn't tell a lie." But men of sense long ago have realized that, even should they brush the question of morals aside and be content to argue the matter from its lowest and most cynical standpoint, the truth-telling policy still remains the best; in fact, the only possible working policy for the man who alms at any definite and lasting success in business. The truth-teller is, in short, the man who stands to make good in the business field; he is the only man who counts to any really vital extent. "First Aid" Book Attach to the medicine closet, with a string and pencil a small alphabetically arranged notebook. Under the letter P, for instance, write the antidoes for the different polsons, for, although one may know them, when the baby swallows the wrong tablet knowledge is apt to desert one, and by the time the doctor arrives upoff the scene it may be too late. Under F writes "Fainting Spells" and what to do. "Cuts and Brushes" list under their proper letter and "Sunstroke," "Burns," and so on, through the list of accidents and sudden illnesses. All this may be taken from a regular first aid book, but added to this may be remedies for sickness to which one's special family is subject. From year to year one forgets what it was that proved so effective in that case of quinsy, but can easily refer to it in this manner. Being arranged alphabetically, it is the work of but a moment to find the desired information. Doses of Medicine for Logs Wood, being a vegetable structure, is liable to decay. But if properly "doped" with some preservation chemical it may be rendered almost decay proof—which, when the matter is brought down to dots, means proof against devouring insects and destructive fungi. Creosote is one of the chemicals commonly used for this purpose. But, whether this or another, the most up-to-date method adopted is to saturate logs with the preservation stuff by pumping the latter into their intimate structure. The preservative, under pressure, is forced into the pores and interstices of the logs through a rubber pipe to which is attached a contrivance that shows on a dial the exact amount of pressure used. Gave Welcome to Lafayette On the Waccamaw river, in South Carolina, far back on a commanding eminence, with acres of rice land and pine forests stretching away on every hand, stands a notable relic of colonial and revolutionary days—"Prospect Hill," the venerable home of Benjamin Huger (pronounced U-gee), an American patriot of French-Huguenot ancestry. It was here that the Marquis de Lafayette spent his first night in America, in 1777, landing on North Island at the mouth of Winyaw bay. He was met by the owner of "Prospect Hill," and was conveyed in a rowboat propelled by negro oarsmen in livery to his destination, where a grand reception was given in his honor. The mansion was brilliantly lighted and adorned with flags, and noted guests from the country around were gathered to welcome the distinguished son of France. M. M. One of the fairest and squarest Judges of the Mun make a splendid Republican Candidate for Cit in 1919. One of the fairest and squarest Judges of the Municipal Court who would make a splendid Republican Candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago, in 1919. HILLMAN'S IS THE PLACE TO DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. It is clearly demonstrated, as the holiday season approaches; that the best place in Chicago to do your Christmas shopping is at Hillman's neat, up-to-date and extensive department store, at Washington and State Streets. Every inch of space is loaded down with a select and varied stock of everything imaginable, suitable for Christmas presents and goods of every description, are marked down at rock bottom prices and they are within the reach of the middle classes as well as the wealthy classes. At Hillman's can be found everything to wear and to eat, for men, women and children. Mr. Edward Hillman, President of Hillman's, who is one of the best and most progressive business men in Chicago; is well pleased with the volume of business, being transacted at the present season and he predicts; that a great tidal wave of prosperity, will continue to roll over this country for many years to come; that the indications are that 1919 from a general business point of view will be the most prosperous year ever experienced by business men, in all parts of this country. There is one thing, that must be said to the everlasting credit of Mr. Hillman and that is; that he was the first State street merchant, to employ Colored people in his store. In 1903, the writer induced him to place a young Colored woman in his store. Her duties were, to open all the mail and to carry the orders and letters, to the head manager of the various departments and she performed her work so well and efficiently, that Mr. Hillman firmly made up his mind, to go on step farther, and employ Colored elevator men; then the members of the State Street Merchants Association, set up a mighty howl and a committee was selected from among its members to wait on Mr. Hillman and to inform him; that he had no business to employ Colored elevator men. In the running hot argument which followed, Mr. Hillman got hot in the collar and he finally informed the members of the State Street Merchants Association, that they could go plumb to hades that he was going to run his store to suit himself and that he would continue to employ Colored men and women as long as they performed their work properly. The first of June, this year, Mr. Hillman again called on the writer to assist him to secure more Colored help and today almost one hundred and fifty Colored men and women are employed, in almost every capacity in Hillman's. Four times more Colored people are employed in Hillman's than in any other department store on State street and that is one reason PAGE FOUR why, that the Colored people in all parts of Chicago, should crowd into Hillman's and do their Christmas shopping. ALDERMAN ROBERT R. JACKSON SCORES A POINT AGAINST THE BIRTH OF A RACE. The Birth of a Race, for the first time in this city, was thrown on the screens at the Blackstone Theater, Sunday evening December 1, and it has been showing to full houses ever since. There was one scene in the Birth of a Race, Photo Play, which was a gross insult and an injustice to the patriotism and loyalty of Colored Americans. The scene referred to represented a large sized white boy, beating a little Colored boy, claiming that he did not want to salute, the American Flag and that he had no country and so on. Underneath the picture, were the following words: "Coons are unloyal Americans" or words to the same effect. Last week the writer called the attention of Alderman Robert R. Jackson, who is the author of the law, which prevents the Birth of a Nation from showing in any part of this state, to the repulsive and untruthful scenes in the Birth of a Race and on Monday morning Alderman Jackson, appeared before the Moving Picture Board of Censors and he carried everything before him in an eloquent brain storm. He made the speech of his life in defending the patriotism and the loyalty of the Colored soldiers and the Colored people in general. He declared; that no Colored man, has ever turned traitor to his Country; that no Colored man has ever trampled, the American Flag in the dust, nor has he ever refused to honor it; that on every battle field, from the Revolutionary war, down to the present world wide war for Democracy; the Colored man has freely shed his blood in defense of old Glory and has freely and willingly fought against all of the enemies of this country; that no Colored man has ever assassinated or attempted to assassinate the President of the United States; that Colored people are more than two-hundred per cent, red-blooded Americans. At the conclusion of the fircy and eloquent remarks of Alderman Jackson, who caused all those in the room to become tongue-tied and spellbound. President Frazier, instructed one of his assistants to call up the managers of the Blackstone Theater and order them to cut out the scene, which was so objectionable, untruthful and a breeder of race prejudice and hatred, or the Birth of a Race would be pulled from the screens forthwith and the scene has been permanently eliminated. The people of the second ward, made no mistake, when they elected. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 14, 1918 Alderman Jackson, to represent them in the City Council, for he is true blue and a yard wide: step before you pick a plant darky out for a "boob." Ask the Kaiser. THE BLACK MAN STOOD PAT The war did more for the Negro American then had been accomplished in several decades of peace. He demonstrated that he could fight, that his willingness and capacity for work were unlimited; that he could easily adapt himself to strange surroundings, and that he understood the purpose of Liberty bonds, which he almost invariably, bought until it actually and positively "hurt". One of the most glorious things that happened to the Negro, however, was the revelation of his absolute, unshakable loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. Evidence adduced before the Senate committee now sitting shows that German propagandists failed miserably in their efforts among the blacks. That they operated principally among the plantation Negroes of the South and there made no headway whatever is significant. It is a splendid tribute to the Americanism of the Negro. It might be supposed that among men and women who are not regular readers of the newspapers, who trust to the "grapevine", which makes a wireless station of every cabin, for most of their information, the fairy tales of the paid German agents would find fertile ground. But the Negro stood pat. "You have no country", was an insidious remark that was dinned into his ears night and day. "You'll never get your Liberty bond money back", was another. "You'll get forty acres of land if the Germans win," they were told. And they were assured that victory for the "humane" Germans meant an end of all hanging and instant leveling of all social linea in the United States. Many white "intellectuals" in the North succumbed to sophistries and lies, but those black millions did not. Their hearts proved pure gold and they stood by Uncle Sam. The secret service needed no special trains for Negro excursions to internment camps. It is that same inborn spirit of loyalty to the government that has prevented the I. W. W. from gaining converts among the blacks of the South, no matter how poor they are or how unjust their position economically. The Southern Negro who remained at home to till the fields was proud of his part in the war. He was quick to realize a situation which he expressed thus: "We've sure got to work hard and feed our soldiers and all their friends or they can't fight for us." But the Negro is not unduly proud of the proofs of his loyalty. He knew he was 100 per cent American all the time. He knows, incidentally, a lot of other things that many people don't know he knows. Any intelligent southerner will tell you that one of the greatest mistakes of northern theorists in considering the Negro is the belief that he is simple and easily fooled. It is true that he often takes advantage of this supposed simplicity as a convenient camouflage in an argumentative pinch. But watch your J. K. D. HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER Associate Justice of the Appellate Court of Cook County who may be induced by his army of friends to enter the race for Mayor of Chicago, in 1919. step before you pick a plantation darky out for a "boob." Ask the Kaiser. (From the "Herald-Examiner" Chicago December 11 1918). U. S. Department of Labor INFORMATION AND EDUCATION SERVICE EDUCATIONAL DIVISION Washington RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE HELD BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. "The Effect of War Conditions on Negro Labor" discussed. New York, December 13. The American Academy of Political Science, one of the influential organizations connected with Columbia University, New York City, is holding a Reconstruction Conference here at the Hotel Astor. Among the speakers are the following: Honorable William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor; Ex-President William H. Taft; Mr. Charles M. Schwab, Director General, American Fleet Corporation; Miss Mary Van Kleeck, Director of Woman in Industry Service, Department of Labor; Mr. Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Labor Administrator; Miss Helen Fraser of London, England; Mr. Thomas B. Love, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Dr. George E. Haynes, Director of Negro Economics, Department of Labor. Extracts from the address of the Director of Negro Economics on "The Effect of War Condition on Negro Labor" are as follows: The subject should be divided into three main parts: (1) The change in the relation of Negro wage-earners to white employers, North and South; (2) the change in the relation of Negro wage-earners to white workmen; and (3) the change in the Negro himself. Wherever there has been such intelligent guidance that the first experience of the Northern employer, in making trial of Negro workers, has been satisfactory to him and wherever there has been intelligent guidance for Negro workers, the experiment has been successful. Without such intelligent direction, employers have given up the trial as a hopeless experiment. Referring to the effect of Negro migration North, the speaker said that after Negro migration North had developed there was a considerable increase in war demands for the building of cantonments and munitions plants in the South, a shortage of labor in the South followed inevitably. Out of this shortage of labor arose a revaluation of Negro labor. Further, this migration to the North and the consequent changes under war conditions brought home to the mind of the rank and file of the Negroes the feeling that freedom among other things means the liberty for one to move at will from place to place and to change his job when it is to his advantage to do so. Again, it should be emphasized that the efforts of the Department of Labor to adjust the relations of white employers and Negro wage-earners in the South during the unusual war conditions have been largely experimental, but the experiment has been successful beyond the most sanguine expectation. The experiment has established beyond question the practicability, North and South, of the plan by which representatives of Ne- President of the Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who should be re-elected president of that association at its forth coming annual meeting. gro wage-earners meet the representatives of white employers in cooperative committees and conferences. It has demonstrated that such meetings can achieve substantial results in adjusting the local labor problems which changing conditions and relations have produced. State, North and South, where the Department of Labor has instituted organized effort for adjustment white employers and white workmen have looked with favor upon the plan accepted, it, and given hearty cooperation. Third, that the plan as now demon Another effect of the war upon Negro labor has been to open up a wider range of occupations, in the North especially. For instance, in Detroit, Mich., in 1914, there were probably not a thousand Negroes in all the factories in that great automobile center. The latest report from Detroit about two months ago stated that probably about sixteen or seventeen thousand are now engaged in the industries of that city. During the past two years, the speaker has visited many States both North and South and has taken special pains to talk with all classes of Negro workers both in industry and agriculture. This canvass of opinion has been among Negroes working on railroads, in mines, in factories; hotel porters, hackmen, farmers, plantation tenants, farm hands, tradesmen, business men, ministers, doctors, lawyers and housewives. The main object of such a canvass has been to learn from these people what constitutes the essential things which the great majority of them consider they should have as the outcome of this war and their part in it. First, they desire a fair chance to secure work and to hold it on the same conditions and with the same pay as other workers. Secondly, there is a widespread desire for education of all kinds. In the third place, there is a united desire for the removal of race discrimination in public courts and in public conveyances, and provision in city and country for the same facilities of community improvement for them as for other folks. The forth thing so generally desired by Negro workers can probably be best expressed in the words of an unlettered Negro tenant farmer in a Southern State, who said to a prominent business man presiding over a meeting: "and, Sir, we wants to help say who governs us." As soon as this sentence was uttered the Negro part of the audience reechoed it in resounding applause. This same sentiment is expressed in various ways by Negro workers in country and city wherever one is able to find out what they really think. In a word, they have a deep consciousness of government by the consent of the governed; they are asking that they may be taken into all public affairs of the commonwealth and of the Nation where their interests are involved. Three general facts have been touched upon in the course of the discussion which should be repeated in closing in order to point to a plan of action: First, all this adjustment of Negro workers North and South in their relation to white employers and white wage-earners needs some general plan of organization. Secondly, it may be stated that in every National Association for the Advenceuld be re-elected president of that asual meeting. State, North and South, where the Department of Labor has instituted organized effort for adjustment, white employers and white workmen have looked with favor upon the plan, accepted, it, and given hearty cooperation. Third, that the plan as now demonstrated in Negro Workers' Advisory Committeees made up on a cooperative basis of representatives of Negro wage-earners white employers, and, wherever possible, white wageearners, is a most effective, practical means of guiding all interests concerned. That as a governmental effort it can deal successfully with many of the problems growing out of the effect of war conditions upon Negro labor. HON. THOMAS CAREY IS IN THE LEAD FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. Concluded from Page One and women have freely signed cards for him for mayor of Chicago. Mr. Carey's Slogan for Mayor is as follows: "I have no one's stamp on my back." "When elected Mayor I will be Mayor in fact. No one will have any strings on me. Those who vote for me will be voting for Tom Carey, not for some one in the background. Being my own master, I will be able to fulfill any promises I make. "I have no nationality headquarters here. We all meet as Americans. There are no race or nationality lines here—nor will there be when I am Mayor." One each week from October 1, 1899, down to the present time The Broad Ax has wended its way into the palatial home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carey, at 4427 Grand Boulevard, and we are exceeding proud to number Mr. and Mrs. Carey among our best and warmest friends in Chicago. CHIPS Mrs. A. F. Leonard of 5234 Washington Boulevard has as her house guest Mrs. Adrian Douglas of Topeka Kans. Hon. A. H. Roberts, lectured Tuesday evening, before a large gathering of citizens, at Aurora, Ill., on "Patriotism." His talk was well received. Dr. and Mrs. U. G. Johnson lately of Cleveland, Ohio are stopping with George Harris, 7219 Wentworth Ave. Dr. Johnson, formerly practiced dentistry in Oklahoma and Texas. Dr. George C. Hall, 3408 South Park avenue! returned home Tuesday evening from spending a short vacation at Kenosha, Wisc. Mrs. Corrine Eggelston, 3313 South Park Avenue; is visiting her near relatives and friends at Atlanta, Ga. and she may not return home until after Christmas. * HON. MICHAEL ZIMMER Seperintendent of the County Hospital, who has always been honest and painstaking as a public official; who would make a tip-top candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago in 1919. ee THE FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN | Every American must go right on American Marines and Soldiers bei for three mortal days on the Jane at Chateau Thierry against tie picked troops of the Germany amy. Did they quit the moment the German turned back and tried to find aplace to dig in? No they did not. They went right on fighting the Ger- zn rear guard. They drove them jmtil the retreat turned into a des- erate rout. And they kept right on tasing them, first at one point and n at another until thty bad clean- them out of the valley of the jeuse and the forest of Argonne, and e town of Sedan. Then came the German surrender—the most abject and rushing fall in all the annals of warfare. In plain language, the American troops operated on the good American rules of the game: “Keep your yes on the ball. Follow through. Play the game right and play it to the finish.” Of course, they won. They couldn't lose, playing the tragic game of war that way. Now there is a parallel calling for the same method of play. The America Expeditionary Forces went abroad to fight, to be wounded, tobe killed, if necessary—fully deter- mined to carry out their pledge of Victory. What was the direct pledge of the American people to those men? The contract was not all on the shoulders of the troops. The nation had to take one side of the contract. The Ameri- can people assumed the solemn obli- fation to back up the fighters with oney, arms, supplies, medical, moral ‘ind social maintenance. The Army in France took a con- tract to fight. , The Army at-home took a contract to pay the bills. The Fighting Americans have made feed on their contract. Now it is up to the people at home te pay the bills. That is why the Treasury is sel- ing Anticipation Certificates eover- ite next year’s Federal Taxes and jifcounting the subscriptions to the ‘xing Fifth Loan. All the money Ried on the previous four Liberty loms nas been spent and the bills tare not been paid. Neariy all the American soldiers ‘®t over seas and it will cost many kandred millions to bring them back. Meantime, they must be fed and kept ® to the scratch in appearance, health, morals, spirits and every other sy. ; There is only one way to do it This paying business takes grit eee SS 300———GIRLS———300 WANTED—FOR CLERICAL POSITIONS Aoplicanta mast have esmelsted the sighth erade, a « wreapondence U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, 3032 Wabash Avenue Every American must go right on saving as hard as before the armis. tice. Save every nickle, every dime, quarter and dollar that can be spared from living expenses. Put savings into the banks, or buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Then when the time comes to sub- scribe for the Fifth Loan everybody will be ready to carry out the con- tracts we have on hand. The soldiers won the Peace by fighting. We have the job of Paving for the Peace. Save and prepare for the Fifth Loan. sore ge QUINN CHAPEL AM. E. CHURCH NOTES 24th and Wabash Ave. on © Sunt Dittor The Third of a series of Illustrated sermons will be preached Sunday night. This one will deal with Israel in the time of the Judges and the Prophets. Giving the experience of three young men in a great cosmopo- litan city. One of the special features of the service will be the Ilustrated song THE HOLY CITY 12 very inspiring and descriptive scenes of the trials, and triumph, of the soul. "Sunday morning the theme of the ‘sermon will be THE PROPHETIC ‘MESSENGER AND THE MESSAGE. ‘The services will begin sharply at 10.45 A. M. BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY .On last Sunday afternoon the So- ciety listened to one of the most in- teresting and logical lectures of the season, delivered by Attorney W. E. Mollison. The lecture will in a short time be published and distributed to the members and friends of this so- ciety. Next Sunday, December 15th at 4.00 PB. M. Doctor Monroe A. Majors will address us subject, “The Negro in Business.” Excellent music will be furnished by Mrs. Geraldine withers. Everybody invited. Ad. mission Free. Rev. W. D. Cook D. D. Pastor, Sandy W. Trice, Pres. J. W. Bell, Secretary. ADVERTISING SOLICITOR WANTED. A live hustling advertising solicitor can make good easy money, by ad- dressing Julius F. Taylor, 6206 S. Elizabeth street; phone Wentworth 2597. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 14, 1918 —————— a = Gallant 92 Division Plays Big Role in Advance on Metz— Taking “Pot-Luck” in Freight Car “Pullmans” on War Front Without Complaint—Wounds Fail to Blot Out Native Sense of Humor—Determined To Keep Up With Procession By Ralph W. Tyler consideration for the comfort of th ACCREDITED RAPPRESENTIVE | American soldier, to use a trite say OF THE COMMITTEE ON ing—“the folks are as good as th : PUBLIC INFORMATION. people”. There is absolutely no dis ARTICLE Vill. Somewhere in France, November 10. — In the battle raging today in the American advance towards Metz, the 92nd Division, one of the Colored combatant division over here, played @ big role. Not only was its black infantry and machine gun units up at the front—in the thickest of it, but its artillery, the 167th Brigade of field artillery was on the line, behaving like veterans, laying down a barrage for the infantry that was marvelously effective, and they esta- blished‘a reputation which has been made by but few, among French, Bri- tish or Americans, of laying down a barrage that did not entrap, and fatally so, their own men. This has been a glorious day for the black soldiers. The fighting is still on, and I have just received the intimation that the casualty toll may be heavy by the Germans, and resis- | tance determined. Metz is considered by experts to be the strongest fort- ified city in the world, almost, if not so, as impregnable as the fortifica- tions of the Dardanelles. But the Americans are hammering away at it, and only the singning of the armis- tice terms, by the Germans, by eleven o'clock tomorrow, will save Metz from falling. Even as it is, Colored soldiers are now on German soil. The husky invaders include the Colored soldiers of the 92nd Division, embracing the “Buffales” or 367th, the 365th and 366th regiments of Infantry and the 167th Brigade of Field Artillery, composed of the 349th, 350th and 351st regiments and the 317th Trench Mortar. Battery, and all are conducting themselves with a fortitude and valor that have won for them high praise from their commanding officers every time they have been put to any test. FREIGHT-CAR LOOK LIKE “PULL- MAN PARLOR COACHES” ON WAR FRONT. Somewhere in France. — To many of our people back in the States “who saw our boys embark on fine Ameri- can railroad coaches and Pullman sleepers to cover the first lap of their hoped-for pilgrimage to Berlin, the coaches they must ride on over here would arouse a mild protest. 1 stood at the station at Vierzon, one of France's many quaint old towns, re- cently, and saw a long train of freight cars roll in enroute to some point furtRer distant. In these cars, with but a limited number of boxes to sit upon, and just the floors to stand up- on, were crowded some one thausand of our own Colored soldiers from “The States”. But a jollier crowd never rode through American cities in Pullman sleepers and diners than these one thousand Colored troopers. They accepted passage on these rude box freight cars cheerfully, for they knew they were-now in wa, and pa- lace cars, downy coaches and the ‘usual American railroad convéniences were neither available nor deside- rable. The point I wish to convey to the people home is that did they but ‘know how cheerfully—even eagerly, our boys over here accept war time conveniences, they would not worry quite so much about how the boys are faring. They are being whole- somely and plenteously fed; they are warmly clothed; they are cheerful and uncomplaining. To a soldier, who must at times sleep with but the canopy of heaven as a covering, and the earth as a mattress, a box freight car that shields him from the rain and wind is a real-luxury, and he ac- cepts it as such. There need not be ‘enemee Tanck. home on to the meinte- consideration for the comfort of the American soldier, to use a trite say- ing—“the folks are as good as the people”. There is absolutely no dis crimination, and the cheerfulness of these one thousand boys whose freight fears became, in immagination, Pull- man palace cars, was the proof to | me that the colored boys in the ranks are getting a fifty-fifty break. | NATIVE SENSE OF HUMUR. Two more stories have come to me ‘to prove that our Colored soldiers ‘preserve and radiate their humor even where shells and shrapnel fly thickest. A Colored soldier slightly wounded in the Argonne fighting,— and let me assure my readers there was “some” fighting there,—sat down beside the road to wait for a chance to ride to the field hospital. A com- rade hastening forward’ to his place in the line, and anxious for the latest news of the progressing battle, asked the wounded brother if he had been in the fight; did he know all about ‘it, and how were things going at the front. “I sure does know all about it,” the wounded man replied. “Well, what's happened to them?” quickly asked the trooper on his way to the front. “Well, it was this way”, re plied the Wounded fellow, “I was climbin over some barber wire tryin’ to get to them d—-n bdches, and they shut me; that’s what a know about it” A company water cart was follow- ing the advancing troop when a Ger- man shell burst in the ditch almost beside the cart. The horse on the shell side was killed, and the driver was wounded in the head. While the blood ran freely from his wound down his face, the driver took one Yook at the wreckage, then started stumbling back along the road. A white lieutenant who ad seen it all stopped the driver of the cart, and ‘suid: , “The dressing station is...........” Before he could finish his sentence, ‘the wounded driver, with the blood ‘flowing in rivulets down his face, said: “Dressing station hell! I'm looking for another horse to hitch ‘to that cart to take the place of the one that shell put out of commission.” ‘That was a bit of nerve, grim humor, and evidence of fidelity to ‘duty.A mere wound in the head could not stop this driver from keeping up ‘with the troops with » needed supply pay THE ILLEGITIMATE BABY'S “RIGHTS Washington. — The rights of lle- gitimate children and the State's re- ‘sponsibility for ‘seeing that every ‘child, no matter what his parentage, hand the nature protection and edu- ‘eation essential to his usefulness as ‘a citizen are for the first time given ‘complete national recognition in the “Norwegian laws concerning illigiti- mate children, according to a report issued today by the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. These laws make the State instead ‘of the mother responsible fo resta- —— paternity. The State holds both parents equally and continuously responsible for the illegitimate child —“The child shall be entitled to brin- ging up—maintenance, training, and education—from both its father and its mother.” The report contains a translation of the several Norwegian laws, with amendments, on illegiti- mate children and their care. A history of the efforts through which the legislation was secured is given ‘in the introduction. |The attitude whieh looks upon il legitimacy as a child-welfare problem that must be solved for’thy sake of the child and of the: State is exempli- by this Norwegian legislation. mln with its studies of the bearing of the war upon child welfare the Children’s Burean exathined the evidence obtainable but could not find that it justified the statements I >. a. HON. JOHN J. BRADLEY United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois who is one of the best and most popular Federal officials in this part of the Country. that have been circulated of wide-, south. If you men will take advan- spread increase in illegitimacy since | tage of the training you have received the war. The Bureau believes, how-| in the army you can make your in- ever, that the needs of the illegitimate | fluence felt in the south as leaders. child must be considered in the Chil-]I urge you to return to the south, dren's Year campaign “to save|save your money, buy farms and be 100.000 children’s lives during the} independent. You can bring about second year of the war and to get a| changes of many things in the south square deal for children.” In the| which are now distasteful to the race Children's Year Working Program | if you will only keep up thé ambition, attention is called to the necessity of | industry and attentiveness to duty providing opportunity for normal] which you have shown while in the development to the child of unmar-| army. You did not actually engage ried parents. in battle in this war, but you helped _——— es win the victory just the same.” ARMY LIFE A SCHOOL FOR CO- ———_———__ LORED TROOPS. SECOND ANNITAL MEETING OF Farms, Is Advice of Col. Young | Camp Grant, Ill. — Col. Charles Young, assigned here with the deve- lopment battalions and the only Co- lored officer of his rank in the re- gular army, delivered a message to- day to the Negro soldiers of the 812th infantry who are about to be mus- tered out of the service, which he hopes will leave a lasting impression and make their military training of advantage to them in civil life. Col. Young emphasized the fact that he is interested in the future of the Co- lored race and he pointed out to the Negro soldiers the advantages they hold over their fellow men of the race because of their training in the army. He urged them always to bear the highest respect toward women of the white race, as well as their own, and die if necessary for their honor the same as they would die on the battle field in defence of their coun- try. It is Farewell Celebration ‘The occasion was a farewell cele- bration to his men arranged at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium by Col. Fred V. S. Chamberlain, commander of the regiment. Col. Chamberlain had started with his regiment to France but only reached the point of embar- kation when the armistice was signed and he returned here with his com- mand. The colonel was sorely disap- pointde, as were his men, because of the interruption of their schedule, but they made the best of it and re- entered Camp Grant with spirits high and with their celebrated band play- ing “My Country "Tis of Thee.” Col. Chamberiain’s interest in his men is well known and because of this he invited Col. Yong to give them a few words of advice before they should again go back to civil life. A great many of the men are from the south, ‘and Col. Young advised them to re- turn there and take a leading part in the future of that portion of the ‘United States which he said was their rightfal home. Own,Farms in the South * “It is within the power of the Co- lored man”, said Col. Young, “to im- prove the conditions of his race in the Monday evening the second an- nual meeting of the Chicago League on Urban condition among Negroes was held at the Abraham Lincoln Center and former Judge Edward Osgood Brown presided over the meeting, the following program was rendered: “America” Chorus and Audience Invocation . “Thanks Be To God” Mendelssohn CHORUS Summary of the Year’s Work T. Arnold Hill “The Home Roard” (Carpenter CHORUS Remarks Rev. J. W. Robinson Selo Miss Mary E. Jones ‘Address — “Reconstruction and the Negro” Horace J. Bridges “Inflammatus” | Rossini MRS. WRIGHT AND CHORUS “The Star Spangled Banner” Chorus and Audience The Music was under the direction of prof. Jas. A. Mundy. Miss Cleo M"Dickerson, Pianidt Mrs. Willa Minor, Organist. PAGE FIVE PAGE SIX E84 {a STYLES 60. BACK TO EARLY DATES Franoe Takes Over a Fashion In- spiration From English SUIT FROM CROMWELL’S RULE Coat and ent cckee: Returned to Favor and Henry I! Straight Loose Gown With Loose Cord Gir die Is Worn. ' _New York.—It is a long cry from Beary I to Cromwell, but fashion jumps that length in seven-leagued doots and regards it as a trifle. Fash- fon, indeed, asserts a fashion critic, places the two periods of the world's history together without apology. She takes a bit from one and a slice from the other, and calls it a frock. | History has been ransacked for three years for inspiration, strange to re cord, when one realizes that a few decades from now fashion will proba- bly start in to register the impres- sions ot these days, and throughout ali the ages to come, If there are such things as fashions for women, those who build them will go to this era of world-war as an aid to jaded brains. Possibly Napoleon was sufficiently an egotist to foresee that the period he created in the world’s progress would last the fashion designers at least an hundred years, as it has done, but he might have been startled at the fact = ad ' os fir ae ae a = bu \ AY ) Street suit taken from Cromwell's rule im Britain, It is of dark-biue cloth with two rows of tiny silver buttons down the front, a battlemented hem, and wide linen collars and cuffs. that, in a tremendous time like this, which makes his mighty battles puny events, we should go on playing varia- tions on the theme of clothes which he brought about through his Martian ad- ventures in other lands than his own. None of the designers have gotten very far away from the Napoleonic era, and their apology is that inspire- tion was drawn from every source dur- ing the reign of this one man, and that it would be difficult to find something which had been omitted. Very true. We Turn to’England. There was once a time, in the be- ginning of the Consulate, when fash- fon in Paris was turned toward the encient enemy across the channel and borrowed ideas for dress. This was Sess tn a suistt of perggesty 7 con. tain settions of society; but the Paris designers now turn there in @ differ- ent spirit—one of intense gratitude and friendliness, and instead of look- ing among present fashions for inspira- tion, knowing full well by practical evidence that they are Parisian, she has gone back to British history. Later she may remember Mesopotamia and Palestine, and linking them to Allenby and Marshall, swirl back to Holy Land costumery. At the moment she is interested in eras of which she has thought little and cared less. It seems a strange thing that the temperamental design- ers of Paris, on whom the world de pends for the movement of the season in clothes,should revive the fashions of Cromwell. Curious juxtaposition of ideas. None has ever arisen in French history who could be likened to this Puritan, and we may'find the reason for this singular recrudescence in the pleasant fact that Cromwell was sand- wiched between two Charleses whose frivolity is historically foreign to Paris. ‘The Cromwellian inspiration is new; the mevival of those fashions which were adopted before the word had any significance when Henry I was. ‘king of England. In_looking over a ‘book of old costumery the similarity shown between the frocks of then and and is startling. And this is all the fur- ther we have gone in dress, is the ex- tiom, that comes ~ "Those 1 severe when ae a Cromwell interrupted the pleasure-lov jing Stuarts. Some one has said that when Charles II came to the throne England with a sigh of relief lai¢ aside her hair shirt to show that she wore a silk one beneath. Just recently there has appesred sev. eral sorts with battlemented hems, ‘a strange sign of those times, and a double row of buttons on each side of a long straight-front opening. The wide linen collar and cuffs are added, ‘and one sees that it is a new fashi6n. Not so new, but equally Cromwell- fan, is the sleeveless blouse, or short coma that our shbps sell as cabually ‘as they once did the American shirt- waist. These, also, were battlemented at the hem, while ours are not, but they- also showed the full sleeves of the shirt beneath. In those days the man chose the undershirt in broad ‘yellow and red-barred stripes. “_ A8.wo wear this other coat, the bat- tlemented one with long sleeves, fas- tened at the neck, but not below, the effect is good. It provides a variant from the accepted styles of jackets. It is beltless, which is a fashion the French degigners are striving hard to establish. ‘The slim lines of this coat keep the widths from awkwardness and the small armholes aid the clean- cut look. Sinuous Hips of the Orient. It may be a happy fact one that gives cause for rejoicing that design- ers have no objection to “bunching” the countries when it comes to fash- fons. To put the oriqntal hip drapery alongside the coat of Cromwell and the chemise of Adele of Lauvain is legitimate business. All's well that once looked well, might be their motto and they go on making a sartorial Tower of Babel, for if a costume could speak, this is what would happen in any representative gathering. The Orient is always too seductive, too easy of imitation, to escape constant usage; there may have been periods in social history when it would not have been possi- ble to persunde well-placed women to appear in the clothes of the Temple girls and those of the Bazaars, but we don’t happen to belong to one of them. We have stopped at some things in| the last six years, but we have gone | far, very far. Sedateness has entered into costum- | ery during the last two years, but now | we may see a return to license in cos-| tfmery that may make pre-war fash- ions appear anemic. Let us hope that joy won't be too unconfined. It there is a pleasing sedateness with freedom from demureness and drabness, ther we will see good cos- umes. Already there is a gracious way of employing orientalism which annot be objected to by conserva- Hives, even in the hip drapery whose swathings are the sig and symbol of he Eastern dancers. There is a tendency to combine col- yred satin with black thread lace in he oriental ffocks, which takes away he suggestion of the East except in| he swirl of fabric that goes about the | sine am ‘The Square Figure. These are ininor changes, however important they may be tp the mass of women who have no intention of swinging their clothes into every pro- cession that passes, in comparison to the subtle transformation going on in til x igi Ui aan Gown of Sweet-gum colored velours showing the square contour for which fashion is headed. The back of the skirt is plaited, the front plain. Uhder the square bodice there is a sash of indian-red crepe. the contour of the figure. It is get- ting square. If it succeeds there is another blue ribbon of victory to the house of Callot who moves along a mysterious way toward changing the fashion of the civilized world. ‘When Callot sent to this country those primitive garments -without belt, or curve, cut straight from two pieces of cloth, or so it appeared, and sewed up at each side, women simply uttered ‘an emphatic negative and passed them by. Brea that Uttle group of extrem- ists which tan be depended on to try out everything once, at least, were too doubtful of the experiment to pot thoney in it. yet here jt is creep- ing im among all the best ‘gowns from important houses and promised af the raling contour for. spring. Copyright, 1918. by McClure N. = "ture Newspape THE BROAD x CHICAGO, DECEMBER 14, 1918 LACE COMES BACK oo ean ; Color Takes Lead for Universa — comingness—Blue Also a Str Decoration for Frocks Promises Favorite With Women. Wide Popularity. = ‘The possibilities of the veil are : = tically unlimited. Chosen with care is KoRRvENs regards to color, size and desi There Is No Attempt to Relieve the | Feil has power to make even the | Neckline of Evening Gowns When | €St women startlingly attractive. ‘They Are Deeply Decollete. {the other hand, a vell can ma aN really pretty woman hopeless. By this time It is quite apparent to| Perhaps the most Important cc even the casual observer, states a|¢ration Is color. Black must tak fashion writer, that olff lace has come | lead for universal becomingness, into its own again and that there is a | that comes blue; but it must be revulsion of feeling against the severe | dark blue, and preferably of a c neck line except by women who know | "dotted mesh. The blue veil 1 they look extremely well in such se-|Coming to blonde and brunette : verity. It is not especially trying when |%4 18 wonderfully effective in the decolletage is square, but when | sting fineness and clearness of rotind, or V-shaped it takes a woman | ost trying of all though, is the with remarkably regular features to | Yell. Only she who knows her ty S eS a) Name, \ Ni Wy = — An Oriental Frock for Dinner and Theater, of Bright Blue Satin and Black Thread Lace. The Bodice Is of the Latter. The Girdle Is Caught by a Placque of Colored Beads. carry it off. ‘This refers to day frocks. There is no attempt to relieve the neckline of evening gowns when they are deeply decollete, as the bodice Is rarely of heavy or opaque material. The introduction of an afternoon frock, which now means a frock worn for lunch as well as tea, but not for the ordinary purposes of shopping or Patriotic work, with a deep U-shaped decolletage half filled in with a fiat rufie of lace, has met with sufficient popularity to insure a reasonable measure of sugcess, and one hears on every side the expression of pleased acceptance with a fashion that gives one a chance to have the face soft- ened. Against this judgment there are a host of objectors who insist that the severe neckline is smart and that the other is out of the picture, but as soon as enough well-dressed women adopt the advancing method then she who is out of the picture will be tn it, It is merely @ question of the eye. We are the victims of visual familiarity with objects. Otherwise there would not be that complete change in the fashions which occurs season in and out. MITTENS ARE IN GAY COLORS Woolen bland Coverings Are Seen in Large Variety; Often Match |. Scarf or Cap. One reason put forward for the vogue for mittens is that one cannot carry a muff and carry a bag, and every patriotic woman simply must carry a bag these duys. Another rea- son, and one that holds true of the woman of moderate income, is that fur is high and a new muff Is out of the question. Then a lot of women are doing outdoor work who never did it before. They are exposed to the cold nipping air of morning and evening on their way to and from vol- unteer or paid work. They drive automobiles and “conduct” street cars and act as messenger boys and collect bills, and for this work they need to have a protection for their hands that is more substantial than the kid glove or fabric glove of other days. Hence the mitten! The prediction was made some months ago that the smartly dressed woman would be wearing shaggy an- gora gloves and mittens and some peo- ple shrugged their shoulders and felt sure that there was nothing that would tempt the well-dressed woman away from the conventional kid. Surely the fact that they had ajmost doubled in Price would not have this effect on the woman who took dressing serious- ly. But the vogue has come, and where well-dressed women are seen in outdoor attire there one also sees woolen gloves and woolen mittens. They are made in the gayest colors, often to match @ woolen scarf or cap, and as the season advances they will be even mére in evidence than they are now. » | Lifings Are Colored. A notion reminiscept of the blouses of several seasons ago, when many Se ee many linings placed one above oth- er, is shown in some clever biue rat caniy Sr econ shows part a red, or petunia shows part of the way to the yoke and again for euffs and collar. BLACK VEILS ARE PREFERRED Color Takes Lead for Universal Be- ‘comingness—Blue Also a Strong Favorite With Women. ‘The possibilities of the veil are prac- tically unlimited. Chosen with care with regards to color, size and design, a veil has power to make even the plain- est women startlingly attractive. On the. other hand, a veil can make @ really pretty woman hopeless. Perhaps the most Impottant consid- eration is color. Black must take the lead for universal becomingness, After that comes blue; but it must be quite ‘a dark blue, and preferably of a coarse undotted mesh. The blue veil ts be- coming to blonde and brunette alike, and is wonderfully effective In sug- gesting fineness and clearness of skin. Most trying of all though, is the white yell. Only she who knows her type to perfection and has proved the becom- ingness of the white vell should at- tempt It. But brown veils for charm- ing red heads by all means! ‘As to size or shape, the unimpeach- ably groomed person may go In for the long flowing vell, hanging loose from the face, But the average woman, if she would look her triggest best, must have her veil snug. Unbeautifying splashy scrolls of the all-over kind are usually not the choice of the carefully dressed woman, no matter how modish the pattern. The same thing ts true of dots. Dots well spaced on a veil carefully arranged have a positive fascination. But you know the funny side of a dot mis- placed, don't you? CHIC NEW SWEATER BLOUSE Gamment Devised Wite Purpose of Conserving Wool, but Without Giving Up Good Points. An extremely serviceable and jaunty garment is the new combination sweat- er blouse, devised by some one who wanted to conserve wool without giv- ing up the good peints of the sweater. A blouse of some gay striped silk is first made according to a pattern that opens down the front with fronts that fold back and join in a wide satlor col- lar. “But the sailor collar is not made of the silk. Instead, It is made of wool of some color that goes well with the strikes in the silk, as are wide cuffs for the sleeves and a foot wide hip sec- tion that forms a tight-fitting peplum for the blouse. To put it on it is sim- ply pulled over the head. It is charm- ing to wear with the walking sult skirt, and the wool is placed just where the additional warmth under the sult coat might be most welcome of frosty mornings. DUVETYN COAT FOR SERVICE se 3 19 5 >, ” 19 i 4 fe i \ % ae a rd | _ * ‘This effective and serviceable duve- tyn coat will appeal strongly to many. Who can resist the immense beaver ¢ollar and the “triple” pockets? OF INTEREST TO WOMEN , Women have been placed in the dining rooms of three of New York's leading hotels to take the places of striking man waiters. More than 6,000 women served as drivers and aids in the Arierican Red Cross motor corp® service. The khaki uniform was discardéd and a new one of Red’Cross Oxford gray substituted. ‘The first girl “bell hops” in Mon- tana have been engaged at a hotel in Missoula, where the innovation has made a profound sensation among the ranchers and cowboys. Of the 30,000 women enrolled in the department of nursing of the Red Cross 700 have been assigned to the federal public healce bureau, or to Red Cross service in this country. ‘Swiss girl singers, sometimes assist- ed by boys, gave street concerts in the principal towns and cities to raise money for a fund for the comfort of io site me et SLIM AND SIMPLE Frocks Are Quite Uniike the Mode of Yestefday. Waistlines Are Capricious; Sleeves of Various Styles; Supply of Silk Is Wondrous; Woolens Limited. Everywhere one sees new clothes. At first glance they seem quite like the mode of yesterday—atid one. resolves with firmness to wear the things left | over. One looks again, relates a writer in Harper's Bazar, and disepvers a @iference which lies not in the out- lines but {n a host of clever, artfully planned detalls—and one’s resolution flies on wings. In style all frocks are slim and sim- ple—or at least they give that impres- sion. The skirts are of the well-known “hobble” type, but they have all the delights and one of the regrets of the hobble we used to struggle with so valiantly. Instead of the uncomforta- bly close confines of other days, the new skirts are so skillfully folded and draped that though the slender lines are scrupulously maintained, the wear- er has plenty of room in which to brave the eurbstones! Waistiines are indeed capricious, for while some reach aspiring heights, others startle with their length. A few staid and sober ones insist on being normal, Of girdles there are a-plenty. If one would have the swathing kind —and one surely will—remember that it begins at the normal waistline and is draped to give the effect of a long, slender waist. Sleeves, always a law unto them- selves, are long and tight at times, again only three-quarters. Some are raped and some are “bells ;" some are banded with fur and some with heavy | material. Thouzh the straight meck- Mine is still much liked, distinctive col- lars of fur will stamp a gown as un- mistakably new, Silk fs the mode, of course. And never were there such wondrous silic- en stuffs! ‘Wools there are—rough homespuns, duvetyns, velours and jerseys—for suits and wraps that one may wear without a qualm, for the materials were manufactured and purchased long before there was any question of consefvation. The supply, of course, is limited, and the tariff proportionate- ly high. RENOVATING THE “HARD” HAT Home Milliner Can Remedy Defects and Make Top Piece Stylish ‘and Becoming. No woman can well afford to make herself look “hard,” and there is noth- Ing that will do it quicker than a “hard” hat. You know the kind, mas culine and unbending in every line. Perhaps you have made an unfortun- ate purchase of the kind. So these general hints on renovating may help. Usually the unbecomingness of this type of hat centers in the crown, which may be too tall or unbecoming- ly stiff, or both. ‘The home milliner can remedy both those things by re placing the stiffened side of the crown with a softer material like satin an- tique, which is ever so modish for hats just now, or with velvet. Usual- ly it is advisable to use the old “lid” of the crown for a stay. Now cut your new material of the desired height and iielf us long again as the circumference of the “lid.” Gather it on a cord and secure to thg latter. After that you can shir it both for the sake of shape and for decorative ness, Another remedy for the harsh crown difficulty, and one almost universally beeoming. is to replace half the side of the crown and the lid with the more yieldy material. According to this method, you will slice off the top of the crown and as much of the side as will give you a becoming crown height. Then gather the new mate- rial as usual. It simplifies the work to do the gathering on a little disk of the former stiffer stuff. a a SKATING SET OF SILK Wr. we ‘ -y ON das) SAV A a SOE re 1 mated ea a. ST) tee This is a decidedly novel and smart- ees ome iain Ge cateek ok ~ecaggr mond ‘The smart little 3 has a slightly rolied brim and a tassel of chenille as 2 finishing touch. ‘Those Coin Dots. On neckwear black coin dots. are Worked in cotton on white organdy in & way that makes them quite worth GOWN FOR AFTERNOON uc E 7 $i aaa g . } eS Rh 3 Terra cotta satin forms this «x tremely attractive gown for afternoe wear. A touch of medieval days is seen in the peasant-like waist with iy lacing at the neck. The skirt is plain with two fine and graceful ruffies, AMONG NEW VEILS AND HATS Close Face Covering Is Invariably Worn by Majority of Welk Dressed American Women, _ ‘Volumes could be written about the veil of the well-dressed American wos an of today. Without the invariable close veil she never ventures abroad in the daylight hours. One sees sears ly ‘three smart flowing veils—if, a course, one excepts the motor vei- during the entire season. All the pot sibilities of a veil are only realized by one who has experimented with ra ous kinds and colors. It was to te veil that accompanied it that might aseribed ae of the effectiveness d the little of henna-brown sats recently seem, says Vogue. A wispd darker brown feathers shot almost é rectly back from the left side of & brim, and a dark-brown tracery gave wonderful tints to the wearer! delicately bronzed skin. A sable cape thrown over the shoulders completed this harmony of warm brown. ‘There is a distinet predominance ot small hats in the smart autuma mill- nery. Satin, velvet and beaver ar among the most popular materials, si these assume soft dark tones. such s dull blue, gray, taupe and brown. Ti new henns brown, which isa sha¢le ber dering on terra cotta, while conside| ably in evidence in autumn costumes| has not to any important degree i vaded the field of millinery. WHEN ONE SITS UP IN BED Knitted Nightingale Most Useful Gx ‘ment When Ill or Reading ae The knitted nightingale is one the most useful garments a sick p& Son can possess, and it is certainly # ceptable to anyone who likes to read? bed. Moreover, it is very easy to nlt and goes quickly. Any light-colord wool is nice for it, especially the sit and wool mixtures that can be p= chased in pink, blue and lavender, better yet, thre fluffed cotton that loots like wool. The scarf itself it straight, with! purled cuff of 40 stitches done on 867 ‘hin needles for two inches, and th Increased to about 60 stitches on ve large needles, agd continued until t whole measures somewhere betwe? 50 and 60 Inches, depending on length of the arms of the pessoa ft whom it is intended. It usually takes bout four balls of wool for one. Whe it Is finished the cuffs are sewed # and part of one edge is turned bac with ribbon through to make « colt and give something to fasten it gether. The whole is somethins lk a big shawl, with a place at exch et! for the arms, and it surely is x joy ® the person in bed who doesn't wast catch cold and who hates to keep BH arms under the cover. STYLE SUGGESTIONS Pockets are shirred at the top %° to appear very full. Dark tailored dresses are relie™ by colored silk piping. ‘Capes may have small furbowé slits to act as armholes. A striking scarf is of black tui? faced with metal tissue. ‘Tunis which droop in points at side are very graceful. ‘Transparent’ material panels * heavy dress with much effect. One side of a skirt may be "7 much draped and the other not st * A charming frock is of rose °° gette and is sashed with brown velvt- . Rows. of military braid form s bie choker collar of a blue serge dres* Threeinch buckles of gun ed! sive a costume of serge a milits!7 fect. idence, 1252 Macalister Place Tel. Monroe 2714 Attorney At Law Suite 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1239 CHICAGO Residence: 508 East 36th Street Phone Douglas 4307 Attorney At Law Suite 815 Hartford Building J. S. Dearborn St., Chicago. Phone Central 6583 PHONE MAIN 2214 A. D. GASH Attorney At Law 118 North La Salle Street CHICAGO Tel. Central 3142 LAWYER 36 WEST RANDOLPH STREET CHICAGO Residence, 4533 Prairie Avenue Phone Kenwood 8520 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 708 184 W. Washington St. Tel., Office, Main 4153 Auto 33736 CHICAGO Phone Kenwood 10230 Res. Phone Drexel 8021 SAM. Z. C. WESTERFIELD Attorney At Law Office, Suit 3A-3B Casey Bldg. 4651 SOUTH STATE STREET Res.: 4605 Champlain Ave. CHICAGO Office Phone 8078 (Douglas) Residence Phone, Douglas 8179 S. A. BEADLE LAWYER 3502 SOUTH STATE ST. CHICAGO Res. 3855 Prairie Ave., Phone Douglas 9133 Phones: Main 2017, Auto. 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St., Chicago. Residence 3419 South Park Ave. PHONE DOUGLAS 9354 WM. J. LATHAM Attorney At Law OFFICE PHONE: CALUMET 875 2 EAST 31ST STREET Suite 7 CHICAGO F. Dunn, J. B. McCahey, Trusees Tel.: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN ESTABLISHED 1877 Wholesale and Retail COAL Fifty-First and Federal Sts. CHICAGO PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. He Knew the Sex. "Take that picture out of your display window immediately!" demanded the frate woman. "I am surprised that you would exhibit my photograph to the common gaze!" "Awfully thoughtless of me," said the photographer a few minutes later. "I should have remembered that she liked the profile best." And the profile was substituted for the offensive front view in the display window, and all were happy ever after.—Kansas City Star. Smoke Wood for Haddocka The historic wireworks at Tintern, England, in which Sir Francis Bacon had a share, are being used as a wood-turning factory, and the waste shavings are sent to Scotland to be used for smoking haddock, as the smoke from the locally grown hard wood has a peculiar sweetness which makes it of special value. Getting Too Reallastic. Rosemary and her brother Edward were playing when Rosemary said: "Now, let's play supposing you be papa and I'll be mamma." The game proceeded nicely until Rosemary said: "Papa, Edward was a bad boy today." Whereupon Edward said: "Oh, I ain't going to play no more--you're not supposing, you're playing real." Sleep Over It. Here is a suggestion that may save you life-long remorse: When you have an important decision to make, sleep over it. I don't mean that when you meet a bear on a narrow trail you should take a nap before you decide whether to advance or retard. You know what I mean—Los Angeles Times. Not So Deep. An elderly lady who was about to cross the Atlantic for the first time was warned by a nervous neighbor of the danger of the "great deep." "Aweel, aweel," she replied, "it's been a dry summer, and I think the sea'll no be very deep." Lark Not an Early Riser. Investigation has ruined the lark's reputation for early rising. That much-celebrated bird is quite a sluggard, as it does not rise till long after chaffinches, linnets and a number of hedgerow birds have been up and about. Use for Preludice. Prejudice must serve some useful purpose since we all have it. Demosthenes valued distrust. When the argument of antecedent probability is shelved for all time there will be no partisans, no nations—only uncared-for cemeteries. Tester for Fountain Pena. Tester for Fountain Pen. Fountain pens are tested by an instrument called a micrometer. If one piece of the mechanism is out even a six-hundredth part of an inch it is rejected as faulty. Exactly. The reason why more of us aren't notable may be seen by separating that word between the third and fourth letters.—Boston Transcript. Not the Road to Wealth. Not the Road to Wealth. "Time is money," said Uncle Eben; "but jes' de same de man dat finds himself wif a lot o' time on his hands has made a pore investment." Their Needs. Said the facetious feller: "What a hungry man wants is a regular meal. What the dyspeptic requires is a meal, regular." Ferns in Vermont. It is believed that, of all the states in the Union, Vermont has the largest number of rare and beautiful ferns. Cause of Roar of Waterfalls. The roar of a waterfall is produced almost entirely by the bursting of millions of air bubbles. Optimistic Thought The desire of more riches is want, and want is poverty. KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Baltimore Med. Co. Columbus, Ga. My picture shows you what your fine EXELENTO QUININE PORADE has done for my hair. If it is fine, it my hair was short and course, and it is 8 inches long, and so with it may any way I do it any way I want to. JANIE RANDA Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE PORADE does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair and cleans it and dries it. After making a few dances you can tell the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you can fix it up to suit you. If Exelento removes it so well, we will give your money back. 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write For Particulars. EXELENTO BEADSCINE CO. Atlanta, Ga. Don't Make Any Engagement That Will Keep You From Attending the CHRISTMAS EVE BALL Tuesday Night, Dec. 24, 1918 1st Regiment,Uniform Rank,K.of P. ENTERTAINERS HALL,35 St. and Indiana Ave. Famous New Orleans Jazz Band and Orchestra ADMISSION 50 CENTS To Consumers of Gas: About Gas Bill Errors Complaints of the been unusually free Mistakes will happen to send out between per month, as we of customers fill percentage of bit of the gas bill m due to the follow Since the war began nearly 600 of our drawn away a still large filled in harmony w mendations—women The personnel in tirely changed in the them several times. in. We have now we had before the business to care for short-handed because work, no matter he has a large clerical The recent influenza tion. Our meter-re ments, which get the hardest. A conseq errors in bills of the These errors are be rected as soon as de done to prevent error Under the rule Utilities Commi lose their discour investigation of We do not gain by we are working under only that our custom patience which the ditions pass, our the highest possible degree The Peoples Ga SAMUE Complaints of errors in gas bills have been unusually frequent during the past month. Mistakes will happen in any business that has to send out between 650,000 and 700,000 bills per month, as we do. The total complaints of customers filed with us are but a small percentage of bills rendered. Practically all of the gas bill mistakes happening lately are due to the following conditions: Since the war began, the army and navy have taken nearly 600 of our employees. War industries have drawn away a still larger number. Vacancies have been filled in harmony with the U.S. Government recommendations—women in place of men where possible. The personnel in many departments has been entirely changed in the sixteen months—in some of them several times. Green help has had to be broken in. We have now nearly 300 more employees than we had before the war, with practically no more business to care for; but many departments are still short-handed because inexperienced help does less work, no matter how willing. Every business that has a large clerical force has had similar experience. The recent influenza epidemic aggravated the situation. Our meter-reading and book-keeping departments, which get out the bills, have been hit the hardest. A consequence of all this has been the errors in bills of the past month. These errors are being promptly and carefully corrected as soon as detected, and everything that can be done to prevent errors is being done. In the meantime: Under the rules of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission, our customers do not lose their discount privileges during the investigation of complaints filed with us. We do not gain by inconveniencing our customers. We are working under abnormal conditions. We ask only that our customers extend to us a little of the patience which the times demand. As war conditions pass, our service will be restored to the highest possible degree of efficiency. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company SAMUEL INSULL, Chairman Batavia is a city divided into two parts—Weltevreden, or the modern Batavia, and Benedenstadt, or old Batavia. In the days of Batavia's prime, Old Batavia was known as the "Queen of the East," or, more appropriately, as the "White Man's Grave." Weltevreden is the section of Batavia in which the European residences, government buildings, shops and stores are located. It is a very attractive city, with wide streets, many garden features, good-looking buildings, spacious lawns and modern improvements. The girl who stretches every statement she makes out of all resemblance to the actual facts of the case may imagine she is strengthening what she is trying to say. But that is a mistake. People who listen to an exaggerated statement invariably discount it, and usually more than it deserves, and in addition they feel a distrust of anything which has to be so overemphasized. Every exaggerated statement is weakened in proportion as it is exaggerated—Grit. To retail friends of the right sort means that one must prove a friend of similar caliber. But on the other hand, if a girl or woman is influenced only by display (which at best is an empty, shallow affair) she cannot hope to hold the sincere regard of persons who in truth are worth while. The really level headed girl will cling fast to the honest friends of other less palmy days—perhaps to the friends who make no display but who are sterling through and through.—Exchange. How Vines Draw on Soil Vines are said to extract yearly from the soil only about three-fourths of the quantity of potash and sulphuric acid that cereals take up. Optimistic Thought. Most powerful is he. who has himself in power. Don't Exaggerate. To Retain Friends terrorrs in gas bills have requent during the past month. We open in any business that has been 650,000 and 700,000 bills do. The total complaints and with us are but a small is rendered. Practically all stakes happening lately are being conditions: In the army and navy have taken employees. War industries have over number. Vacancies have been with the U.S. Government recom- mined in place of men where possible. Many departments has been en- gined sixteen months—in some of Green help has had to be broken nearly 300 more employees than war, with practically no more but many departments are still inexperienced help does less now willing. Every business that force has had similar experience. An epidemic aggravated the situa- tion and book-keeping depart- out the bills, have been hit the science of all this has been the past month. Being promptly and carefully cor- rected, and everything that can be is being done. In the meantime: Us of the Illinois Public Sion, our customers do not unt privileges during the complaints filed with us. Conveniencing our customers. We abnormal conditions. We ask users extend to us a little of the times demand. As war con- service will be restored to the free of efficiency. L Light & Coke Company L INSULL, Chairman Hugo's Description of Rhine. The Rhine is a stream of varted aspects. Victor Hugo, who wrote what was perhaps the finest article ever written about it, said: "The Rhine is unique; it combines the qualities of every river. Like the Rhone it is rapid; broad, like the Loire; enclosed, like the Meuse; serpentine, like the Seine; limp and green, like the Somme; historical, like the Tiber; royal, like the Danube; mysterious, like the Nile; spangled with gold, like an American river; and, like a river of Asia, abounding with phantous and fables." A Divine Melody. The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and of every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and, though there have been mingled the discords of roaring cannon and dying man, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian—the humble listener—there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.—James A. Garfield. It Is a Little Strange. "This is a funny world," sald the facetious feller. "Nothin's ever said when a railroad map switches cars, or a musical cuss beats time; and a newspaper guy kin pound a typewriter till it shrieks for help and a bank clerk aln't worth shucks unless be strikes a balance every evenin', but jest let a feller tap a till real 'gentle like and without disturin' anybody an 'there's the darndest row that ever was."—Indianapolis Star. Need Animal Food. It has been found that such animal food as milk, eggs and meat contains growth-producing substances in quantities sufficient for the rapid growth and development of the body. While these substances are found in certain vegetables and grain, they are in quantities so small that often in the ordinary diet sufficient quantities are not consumed to meet the needs of the growing body. As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL In a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. 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THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED/EVERY SATURDAY In this city since July 15th, 1841, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, infidels or anyone else can have a proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper all, ever claiming the editorial line. Local communications will run on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid. One Year..... Six Months..... Advertising rates made known. VOL. XXIV DECEMBER Address all co... THE B 6206 South Elizabeth Phone Were JULIUS F. TAYLOR DR. M. A. MAJORS..... 4700 South Phone D IMPORTANT For resolutions, obituary new special announcements of events is made, and the opening of cents per line; 6 words or fraction. Personal or social items such everything of a general interest, Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 1 Under Act of In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write plainly, only on one side of the paper. IMPORTANT NOTICE For resolutions, obituary notices, cards of thanks, write-ups, special announcements of events to happen, when a charge of admission is made, and the opening of new business enterprises, etc., 15 cents per line; 6 words or fraction makes one line. Personal or social items such as marriages, births, deaths and everything of a general interest, published free of charge. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879. THE TONGUE PROSTITUTE Lying, gossip, talking ill of others, meddling "That's what I heard." "They say so." "I am so sorry," "Who would have thought it." "I wouldn't think that of her, but for what ____ said, and you know her nerveity is unquestionable." These and a million other smoke stacks of Hell's fire burning and consuming to ashes in the human bonfire of hypocrisy's condemnation of all the good of men and women. Character assassination, drowned in the hotluke of moral decay, burnishing its turpitude tree win what? To win not a farthing of fat, to feed a fool. Loosejamed, bleereyed, rotten in heart this holicust of character destruction to slake a thist for vengeance on a woman who aspires to goodness, or to a man who will not stoop to harlotry's command. Where is the injury and the sting? Go seek the husband who deems his life shipwrecked. Go seek that woman with a child in her lap, who for lies, turned against the man who, in spite of the fires of hate and ranchor and such lies stood firm and strong and sustained the weak. You murderers with tongue and saturnalia black, with scionion teeth and vipers low weakishness, graduate of all that hurts the pure and tone, educated in a hogs hovel, trained in all the mystery of ugly design and cunning deviltry, captains of your corpral guard of human dishonor, and human debasement. Why do you not curse the very God of heaven and die? You are not fit for earth or sky. You contaminate the pure breath of the air you live upon, and the poison ooze of reprobate carnality is too much stench even for such as you. The cankerous seething fester of your rotten life is disgraceful to the lowest stages of human degradation. This human murder of men and women with lying tongue, and the fool with listening ear. This, hindrance to sense, to humane reason, this curse to children in mothers laps, Destruction of faith in men, canceous human love, to strangle happiness to ooze from the vipers tongue to poison death wherever it is found. But what is the use Milton knew, and hence he wrote his "Paradis Lost." But, Oh ye people, you avowed Christians, ye pro-Christians, believers in good, doers of good. Trouble the troubled waters, sweeten this life with the sugar of your nature and give us back that love we once had for the time. Everybody ought to be happy and thankful we are alive.—Just think if you can what war is.—It is very easy to dismiss merely by saying "War is Hell."—But what is Hell?—Nobody knows.—Our imagination built upon false teaching makes us think of heat. But this is merely one simple angle of the main idea.—Destruction to life, ARE YOU HAPPY? 899, without missing one single issue. s, Protestants, Single Taxes, Priests, their say as long as their language is or whose platform is broad enough for right to speak its own mind. receive attention. Write plainly, only in advance. $2.00 1.00 own on application. OCTBER 14, 1918 No. 13 communications to BROAD AX North Street, Chicago,* Ill. Nettworth 2597. Editor and Publisher Associate Editor State Street, Grexel 1416 otices, cards of thanks, write-ups, to happen, when a charge of admis- tion new business enterprises, etc., 15 makes one line. th as marriages, births, deaths and published free of charge. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., March 3, 1879. preoperty, impoverished, condition and starvation, nakedness, wretched despair, bitterest of anguish.—Reduced to pauperism from wealth, disco- couragement, disappointment, oppression, tyranny, destruction to hope and ambition, loss power to help self. This is both hell and war. And yet worse it seems that any of these is death.— What is death?—Death is the end of mortality—bodily annihilation, destruction, and of earthly life.— The stopping point to human effort, the poet says, "Death is* the gate to endless joy, and yet we dread to enter there." — Let me live, live, this is the glorious hope of all who breathe.—Aint you happy?— Always let your pride in human welfare be above individual or race. Try and see if you can do it. If you succeed, you are a real citizen, a noble character, and the world is suffering greatly because there are so few like you. Keep your troubles to yourself. Don't you know that when you relate them the telephone gets busy until the circle of friends are all reached. Did you ever see minnows after crumbs? —Chickens after bread crumbs? —Well that is precisely the way our friends do when they get something to gossip about.—Of course, you are very foolish to be telling your troubles to anyone, for its damned poor business, believe me. Do not fail to get our Christmas number. If you do, you will miss something you will be sorry for missing. The Broad Ax is one of the growing newspaper enterprises of the Race. We are ambitious and we propose to get our share of business by giving good service. PROCLAMATION The year of 1919 being the Tercentenial of our habitation in the United States and deeply mindful of our industrial, religious, commercial and intellectual growth during the three centuries. L. M. A. Majors, M. D., President of the National Association of Negro Authors of America do hereby recommend that one of the many features of so great a celebration commemorating the landing of our forefathers at Jamestown, Va., in 1619 shall be an ode, that a competition for a memorial prize be held among the leading poets of the Negro race in the United States. All poets who have already destinguished themselves as such, will do us the great kindness of sending their address at once. As a contribution of the middle West a prize of $100.00 will be given for the best poem for the Tercentenary celebration. M. A. MAJORS, Pres., National Ass'n of Negro Authors 4700 S. State St., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL PAGE WHAT THEY'LL DO TO HIM. All the fighting allied nations are for hanging Kaiser Bill. For he put the world on rations and its been a bitter pill. Oh the meatless days, that greet us. Oh the sugar we have missed. Then the heatless and the sweetless. How that Kaiser has been kissed! We can charge him with our trouble. He's the goat alright, alright; And he ought to suffer double. For beginning all the fight. Oh the millions it has cost us, both in men and money too. Wilhelm thought that what was lost us Lusitania was our due. He's had time to thinking over mischief of his hellish gang. Make him swim the straits of Dover, Er'e was let the Boche hang. A Torch of One's Own As Plutarch tells us, "It is well to go for a light to another man's fire, but not to tarry by it, instead lighting a torch of one's own." A torch of one's own! That is a possession worth having, whether it be a flaming beacon on the hilltop or a tiny taper in the window. We cannot tell how far a little candle throws its beams, nor who is laying his course by its flickering light. The most that we can do—and it is also the least that we should do—is to tend the flame carefully and to keep it steady.—Brander Matthews. Bestow Praise Generously. Let us not be niggily with a word of praise or encouragement as far as our own dear ones are concerned. The world will offer them neither—in fact, it cares absolutely nothing about them. Therefore, if we hope to bring out what is worth while in our children, or if we would make them truly happy, we must become their stanch allies. Otherwise, we are playing a losing game and can only look for defeat. Writing Without Punctuation: Chinese do not need punctuation or any other mark. It might be doubtful from the foreign point of view whether a language is possible that has done away with punctuation. The fact is, however, that punctuation is no longer necessary for Chinese. The characters besides performing a function of their own, take over that also of the period, comma, hyphen, interrogation, exclamation mark, etc. Burma's Sassamum Crop Over 500 different types of husked rice or paddy were under examination last year at one of the government agricultural farms in Burma, and over 200 types of sassamum were grown at another. Hitherto much of the sassamum grown in Burma has been exported to Europe, where it is used for the production of the so-called "olive oil," for which France and Italy have long been famed. Cleanliness Next to Godliness. The phrase "Cleanliness is next to godliness" is found in John Wesley's Sermon XCII on Dress. The language of the aphorism, however, is taken from the Bernitha, a translation of the Mishna by Rafael M. de Sola. Bacon in one of his essays says: "For cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society and to ourselves."—Christian Herald. A "Bull." One evening, after the files had been unusually troublesome, an Irish mistress spread insect powder round the windows and other places in the kitchen where the files congregated. In the morning she asked the servant girl if there was not a great many dead files in the kitchen. "Yes, there are, mum," replied the maid. "The room's alive with them!" In Death Not Divided It is true that in several parts of China it is still considered an act of virtue for a woman to commit suicide publicly after the death of her husband. According to the law, the proceeding is actually legal in some provinces, and such is the state of public opinion that in districts where it is officially prohibited the authorities rarely interfere. Your Eyes on the Goal The runner who looks over his shoulder to see whether his rival is galning on him, is pretty sure to lose the race. Keep your eye on the goal. The backward look means lost time, whatever sort of race you are running. The things behind you do not matter. All that concerns you is on ahead. Seemed Like Wasted Time. Markets for a short time during the war were not doing any delivering. Mary, age five, one night at bedtime was saying the Lord's prayer. Coming to the part "Deliver us from evil," she exclaimed: "Mother what is the use of praying for that, they won't deliver a thing in this town." George Washington had only five cabinet officers—a secretary of state, a secretary of the treasury, a secretary of war, a postmaster general and an attorney general. A secretary of the navy was added under John Adams, a secretary of the interior under Taylor and a secretary of agriculture under Cleveland. The department of commerce and labor was created in 1903, under Roosevelt, and the department of labor was made separate under Wilson in 1913. Possible Granary The harvesting of the corn crops in Venezuela commences in September or October. In most sections of the country only one crop is raised anually, though with irrigation there could easily be two. Most of the corn raised in Venezuela is white, and the market for this is not so good in the West Indies as for the yellow varieties. In case of any deficit in the corn crop in the United States, Venezuela might well be considered as an available source of supply. Metric Denominations The metric denominations and values for measures of capacity are as follows: Kiloliter or stere. 1,000 liters, equals one cubic meter; hectoliter. 100 liters, equals one-tenth of a cubic meter; dekoliter. ten liters, equals ten cubic decimeters; liter, equals one cubic decimeter; deciliter. one-tenth of a liter, equals one-tenth of a cubic decimeter; centiliter, one-hundredth of a liter, equals ten cubic centimeters; milliliter, on one-thousandth of a liter, equals one cubic centimeter. Cold Kills Fish. It has been proved that sudden cold sometimes causes the death of thousands of fish in the shallow waters of the tropics and subtropics. Many species are so chilled as to become helpless, and are either killed directly by drowning or are washed ashore in a comatose state. The phenomenon is known locally as "freezing," although the temperature of the water may be several degrees above the freezing point. Don't Do It. It is bad manners and bad business etiquette for two employees of the same office to discuss the personal affairs of fellow workers or of their employer. Almost every worker is in possession of some private information as a result of his work, but that should be regarded as a trust not to be betrayed. It is also bad manners to inquire as to the wages or the particular duties of fellow workmen.-Biddy By2. Fireless Cookers That Are Safe Recently the national board of fire underwriters issued a caution against using wooden pails or tubs to make home-made fireless cookers. To eliminate the danger of fires from these valuable fuel savers, the department of agriculture advocates using ground-up asbestos in place of hay, paper or wool for packing in them. Additional safety may be attained by making the cooker from a tin can. Charles Carroll Charles Carroll was the last to survive of the 57 men who signed our Declaration of Independence. He lived until 1832, having reached his ninety-fifth year. He was the most eminent of the four men from Maryland, and was of Irish descent, the first member of the family to come to this country being also named Charles Carroll, who left England in 1839. Separating Photograph From Mount When a photograph is pulled away from its mount, after being sufficiently soaked in water, the surface of the print may be injured by the bending. This can be avoided by laying the print flat on its face and pulling away the mount, stripping it away in several layers if necessary.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. All Is Not Lost Boys no longer have the opportunity to learn their lessons by the light of a pine knot. But opportunities to master draw pokef in a quiet hayloft, and by the light of a smudged lantern, still are available in many rural communities.—Topeka Capital. Strength of Character Strength of character is not mere strength of feeling; it is the resolute restraint of strong feeling. It is unyielding resistance to whatever would discontent us from without or unsettle us from within—Dickens. A Fathom. When sailors speak of fathoms they do not always mean the same thing. On board a man-of-war a fathom means six feet, on board a merchantman five and a half feet, and on board a fishing vessel five feet. City and Country The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.—Chapin. Beginning Tower of London A royal palace, consisting of what is known as the "white tower," appears to have been the beginning of the Tower of London. It was commenced by William's son, William Rufus, who, in 1008, surrounded it with walls and a broad ditch. Several succeeding kings made additions to it, and King Edward III erected the church. In 1628 the old white tower was rebuilt, and in the reign of Charles II a great number of additions were made to it. The new buildings in the tower were completed in 1850. Making Americans If we will plant the children of our immigrants in American soil, give them American companions, teach them in the American language, let them breathe American literature, discipline them in the American art of self-government, warm their hearts in the sunshine of American tenderness, sympathy and good fellowship, and always respect the nature which God has given them however it may differ from ours, they will grow up loyal, patriotic, devoted Americans.—Lyman Abbott. Early Morning Exercise "Don't roll out of bed like a sailor," says a newspaper doctor. "Stretch the muscles and the legs and abdomen immediately after awakening. Putting on one's stockings in bed is a good way to accomplish this result and reduce flesh." Obviously, to follow these instructions, one should take the stockings to bed the night before. Most of the exercise, then, naturally will consist in finding the stockings among the bed clothes the next morning.—Kansas City Star. Records Salt in Sea Water. An instrument has been devised which gives a continuous record of the salinity of sea water by the measurement of its electrical conductivity. A pair of electrolytic cells have been designed which, when used with a suitable alternating-current galvanometer, will give satisfactory operation in connection with a recorder. The temperature compensation is obtained by placing both cells, which are in the two arms of a Wheatstone bridge, in a uniform temperature bath. Temperature at the North Role It is not a matter of record that Peary took the temperature during his short stay at the Pole, hence there is no North pole temperature record that we know about. The probable maximum temperature, however, cannot be much above the freezing point, notwithstanding its 24-hour day, for the Pole is isolated and in an ocean in which it is necessary to melt all the ice and snow before the immediate surface temperature rises much above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Did You Ever Do This? Visitors or strangers coming into an office are often embarrassed by the discourtesy of office employees who ignore their presence—or wait for some one else to inquire the visitor's errand. Ary employee who happens to be near when a stranger enters should address him courteously and ask if he can take a message or be of assistance. The visitor's impression of the employer often is affected by the attitude of the employee.—Biddy Bye. Too Easy. Newlywed (explaining poker)—"Now, if you get a poor hand you want to bluff, and if you get a good hand, you want to make a bluff that you're bluffing. Now there are two ways of bluffing; one is to bluff, the other not to blut." If you're a regular bluffer, you can often bluff by not bluffing, and—" Mrs. Newlywed—"I see, John, dear, but that game is too ridiculously easy. Let's play checkers." Keeping Cut Flowers. Most kinds of cut flowers will keep for a long time if they are completely immersed in water. Place the blossoms in bowls of water every night, and take them out and rearrange them in the morning. The flowers will often appear as fresh as if they had been newly gathered.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. Another American Triumph A European record for the most heavily laden freight train was established by a Russian railroad when an American, locomotive hauled a train 2,800 feet long with a load of 4,424 tons. Singleness of Purpose "It may sound strange," said the boarding-house bachelor, "but a lot of men are convinced that the easiest way to win the battle of life is to fight it single-handed." Canable of Anything. Almost everything has been laid to diseased teeth except murder; and one never can tell what might be the outcome of jumping toothache.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Daily Thought Every one is the son of his own works.—Cervantes. Quick Work Overheard at a county fair: (Inter- cated Man gazing in open-mouthed as tonishment at an incubator just placed in floral hall and in which the chicks are beginning to hatch) "These here incubators just beat an- thing I ever saw. I give you my word them eggs haven't been in here as hour and they are hatching alrea- To Have Men You're Go forth into the busy world and love it, interest yourself in its life; mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows; try what you can do for men rather than what you can make them do for you, and you will know what it is to have men yours, better than if you were their king or master—Brooke Herford. Speed of Carrier Pigeons On fairly long journeys, say to 100 miles or more, the carrier pigeon will average a speed of from 37 to 45 miles an hour. The best horse in the world can only keep up a speed proximate to that for six or seven minutes at most. The pigeon's speed is about 33 yards a second. Easy to Avoid Worry Worry may be compared to any deadly disease and its victims are in numable. And if we don't want to become one of the unhappy throng we must, wherever our lines are cast, adapt ourselves to circumstances Alring our grievances and literally looking for more will inevitably result in our becoming downright miserable. Life In the Dead Sea In one of the Jericho hotels there was preserved a declaration jointly signed the same year by over a dozen tourists in the dead sea. At many spots along the shore there are places in which acres of reeds and many trees flourish, and at such spots and mal life and bird life are abundant. Its Drawback: Jinks—"You don't mean to say your wife wants to sell that prize toy terrier you bought for her?" Binks—"Yes, she does." "Why, I thought that toy was said to be the smallest dog in the world!" "That's the trouble. So small she'keeps mistaking it for a mouse!" Live in Extinct Volcano In southern Tunisia is a mountain of considerable size called Dourat, which once upon a time was an active volcano. Bubbles of volcanic gases muffle a veritable honeycomb of cares which in these days are inhabited. In fact, the whole mountain is a city—a human anthill, densely populated. Filters Don't Stop Influenza. Recent researches conducted by MM Nicole and Lebally of the Pasteur institute of Tunis have proven that the microbe of influenza is what is known as a "filter passer"—that is, it is so small as to pass through any filter, no matter how minute the interstices may be. Keeps Cheese Fresh Molsten a sheet of wax paper with vinegar, wrap the cheese tightly in it, then wrap with another paper; the cheese will keep for days without getting hard. The vinegar doesn't affect the taste of the cheese at all. Daily Thought. I can tell where my own shoe pinch me. Cervantes. Jest and Joke. A joke is often rougher and less delicate than a jest, as a practical joke, but jest often suggests more of lightness or scoffing than a joke, as to turn everything into jest. Joke is the word to use where action is implied, while jest is generally applied to something sald. "Black Plague." The "Black Death," or "Black Plague," was also known as the "busonic plague," and was a scourge in Europe and Asia in the years between 1334-1351, when millions were swept away by the scourge. It has recurred from time to time since then, but never so severely. More Than Figure of Speech. More Than Figure of Speech. New Jersey reports the scientific discovery that insanity is sometimes traceable to unsound teeth. "Going crazy with the toothache" may turn out to be more than a figure of speech after all—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Bartorial Item. The man dressed in a little brief atti thority is generally very proud of his apparel—Boston Transcript. Horsepower in water. Each normal horsepower of boiler requires one cubic foot of water as hour. Daily Thought: His mind his kingdom and his will his 'aw.—Cowper.